In our country, true teams rarely exist . . . social barriers and personal ambitions have reduced athletes to dissolute cliques or individuals thrown together for mutual profit . . . Yet these rugby players. with their muddied, cracked bodies, are struggling to hold onto a sense of humanity that we in America have lost and are unlikely to regain. The game may only be to move a ball forward on a dirt field, but the task can be accomplished with an unshackled joy and its memories will be a permanent delight. The women and men who play on that rugby field are more alive than too many of us will ever be. The foolish emptiness we think we perceive in their existence is only our own
Victor Cahn A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
Steven BrustAmbition makes more trusty slaves than need
Ben JonsonAs falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
Lord ByronAmbition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme - to be sublimely great or to be nothing. [a profound quote indeed]
Shakti GawainWhen I was asked to join this club and I saw the quality and ambitions of the manager it was an easy choice for me to make.
Alberto Ricardo CarvalhoUnruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.
Sir Roger L'EstrangeAmbition is not a vice of little people
MontaigneAmbition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
SallustBy 2014 we want to be internationally recognised as the number one club [Chelsea ambitions]
Peter KenyonNeither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.
John KeatsIt is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
Kenneth TynanThe question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: 'Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?'
J A SchumpeterLook, I have already said I am not going to put any artificial limits on our ambitions this time around [on the election in 2005]
Charles KennedyBasically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
Bob DylanAmbition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
J M BarrieI have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.
Oliver ReedFestival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.
Baron Pierre De CoubertinI have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
William HazlittMost people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowAmbition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
Walter LandorThink not ambition wise, because 't is brave.
William DavenantThe difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and which you are feeling!
Rachel FieldA man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead.
Pearl BaileyNothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
Balthasar GracianAmbition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
Edward DahlbergAmbition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Sir John DenhamNothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!
Bernard FontenelleThe men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves
Robert BurtonPeople in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.
Margaret MeadMusic was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful.
BabyfaceAn ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
Michael KordaIt has always been my ambition to see the group deliver a full year of profitability. Now this has been achieved, it is the right time for the business and the right time for me to explore other challenges [on leaving lastminute]
Martha Lane FoxThe man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
John D RockefellerAmbition is a dream with a V8 engine.
Elvis PresleyOf all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest
Oliver GoldsmithThough ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
QuintilianAmbition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
Jonathan SwiftAchievement results from work realizing ambition.
Adam AntA belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour.
Aldous HuxleyMy actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.
Omar BongoDependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas JeffersonA noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Marcus AureliusA man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Marcus AureliusLong-held ambition [on appearing in Coronation Street]
Ian McKellenAmbition, like a torrent, never looks back
Ben JonsonAmbition, in a private man is a vice, Is in a prince the virtue (The Bashful Lover)
Philip MassingerBeware ambition; heaven is not reached with pride; but with submission
Thomas MiddletonWhere does this guy's ambition go? That's very peculiar. I think he's a very disturbing person, I think he's a very disturbing politician. Personally, I feel his interest is a self-interest [on George Galloway]
Helen MirrenThe only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions
Mike Atherton
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