When 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 can creep as well as soar.
Edmund BurkeSomeday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord. [Lofty ambition indeed!]
Eddie CondonNeither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.
John KeatsThough ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Hosea BallouI've long harboured radio presenting ambitions. [Unfortunately the British public doesn't harbour that same ambition back!]
Abi TitmussTo do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being.
Sir John LubbockNothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
Balthasar GracianIn 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 is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Thomas OtwayThe man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
John D RockefellerIt'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 Nothing 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 FontenelleThat sense of ambition, of aspiration, of moving forward, will be very important [leaving the Labour party then, Hazel?]
Hazel BlearsAmbition makes more trusty slaves than need
Ben JonsonThe trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and the army tomorrow.
Yakubu GowonThough ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
QuintilianPublic 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 RileyAmbition is a dream with a V8 engine.
Elvis PresleyA 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 AureliusAmbition is not a vice of little people
MontaigneThere 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 DykeAmbition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
SallustThe 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 LearyMusic 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.
BabyfaceOf all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest
Oliver GoldsmithI have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.
Oliver ReedMy ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.
Juliette BinocheAchievement results from work realizing ambition.
Adam AntThe only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions
Mike AthertonAmbition is not what man does... but what man would do.
Robert BrowningA 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 HuxleyThe 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 FieldAmbition's cradle oftenest is its grave
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowEngland'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 DaviesWith 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 GoldDon't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand
William FeatherIt 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 FoxIn 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 BoveePeople 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 MeadBeware ambition; heaven is not reached with pride; but with submission
Thomas MiddletonUnruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.
Sir Roger L'EstrangeBasically 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 BarrieHe had ambitions, at one time, to become a sex maniac, but he failed his practical.
Les DawsonAs a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
Lynn DaviesMy ambition is to be happy.
Penelope CruzWhere 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 HumeHe who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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