The 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 SchumpeterThe greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
Marquis De VauvenarguesIt's been a lifetime ambition of mine to play an 007 villain.
Angelina JolieWhere ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions
David HumeIt's very frustrating. The lads showed a lot of ambition in the first half, they went out to sustain it in the second but couldn't build on it. [on losing to France]
Andy Robinson The 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 FieldMy ambition is to be happy.
Penelope CruzWhere 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 MirrenAmbition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
SallustUnruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.
Sir Roger L'EstrangeNothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
Balthasar GracianOf all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest
Oliver GoldsmithThe tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability
William FeatherWith some basic skills, ambition and persistence, then there is little limit to what you can achieve, and by trying you can often surprise yourself.
Joe GoldAmbition makes more trusty slaves than need
Ben JonsonAmbition 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 DahlbergAchievement results from work realizing ambition.
Adam AntOur bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
Saint AugustineBut if thou livest in Adam, and Adam reigns in thee, then thou art not a child of God, nor born again of him. For since thou art overcome by the world, and since the prince therefore rules in thee by pride, ambition and selflove, thou art on this very account to be numbered amongst the children of the devil.
John ArndtModeration has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Benjamin DisraeliAmbition is not a vice of little people
MontaigneSomeday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord. [Lofty ambition indeed!]
Eddie CondonPublic life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
Pat RileyWhen 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 CarvalhoAmbition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Thomas OtwayPeople 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 MeadHe had ambitions, at one time, to become a sex maniac, but he failed his practical.
Les DawsonA mother should have some fantasy about her child's future. It will increase her interest in the child. [Hmm isn't any mother actually interested in the child irrespective of dreams and ambitions!]
James HillmanLook, 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 KennedyA man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Marcus AureliusAmbition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
Walter LandorIn 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 Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
Jonathan SwiftMy 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 BongoI have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.
Oliver ReedThat sense of ambition, of aspiration, of moving forward, will be very important [leaving the Labour party then, Hazel?]
Hazel BlearsDon't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand
William FeatherA 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 AureliusAs falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
Lord ByronI have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
William HazlittWhen ambition ends, happiness begins.
Thomas MertonIt 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 FoxCharacter cannot be developed in peace and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen KellerThe love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
William HazlittThe only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions
Mike AthertonThe man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
John D RockefellerThe men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves
Robert BurtonWomen who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Timothy LearyBy 2014 we want to be internationally recognised as the number one club [Chelsea ambitions]
Peter KenyonThere is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
Henry Jackson Van Dyke
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