Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
Balthasar GracianThough ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
QuintilianThink not ambition wise, because 't is brave.
William DavenantAmbition is a dream with a V8 engine.
Elvis PresleyAmbition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
Jonathan SwiftHe who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
Niccolo MachiavelliEngland's main problem [in rugby] is they lack confidence. If you don't have confidence, you have no ambition, and it's very difficult to play without any ryhthm. [on 2006 performance]
Jonathan DaviesThe 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 FieldCharacter 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 KellerAmbition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when they have tasted of their bane, cannot rest till they drink, and then can much less rest till they die
Joseph HallAn ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
Michael KordaAmbition, in a private man is a vice, Is in a prince the virtue (The Bashful Lover)
Philip MassingerA young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
Steven BrustLook, 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 KennedyIn 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 By 2014 we want to be internationally recognised as the number one club [Chelsea ambitions]
Peter KenyonA 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 HuxleyPublic 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 RileyThough ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Hosea BallouDependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas JeffersonMusic 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.
BabyfaceA man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead.
Pearl BaileyThe 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 SchumpeterIn ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
Christian Nestell BoveeAs a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
Lynn DaviesAmbition is not a vice of little people
MontaigneI have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive - besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.
Lord ByronThe man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
John D RockefellerGolf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.
Alistair CookeBut 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 ArndtDon't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand
William FeatherAmbition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Thomas OtwayLong-held ambition [on appearing in Coronation Street]
Ian McKellenWith 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 GoldThat sense of ambition, of aspiration, of moving forward, will be very important [leaving the Labour party then, Hazel?]
Hazel BlearsNeither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.
John KeatsAchievement results from work realizing ambition.
Adam AntThe tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability
William FeatherThe only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions
Mike AthertonThere 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 DykeMost people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe 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 HazlittOur 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 AugustineAmbition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.
James CookMy 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 BongoPeople 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 MeadWomen who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Timothy LearyThe men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves
Robert BurtonNothing 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 FontenelleAmbition makes more trusty slaves than need
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