There 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 DykeAn ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
Michael KordaThe greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
Marquis De VauvenarguesThough ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
QuintilianEngland'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 DaviesAs falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
Lord ByronBut 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 ArndtOn her childhood ambitions: I wanted to own a chain of hotels. Another crazy idea was to be Governor of California.
CapriceAmbition makes more trusty slaves than need
Ben JonsonIn 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 can creep as well as soar.
Edmund BurkeThe 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 SchumpeterModeration 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 DisraeliWhere 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 MirrenI would like to lose some of the weight that I have put on since I stopped playing football [on ambitions for dancing]
John BarnesPublic 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 RileyNeither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.
John KeatsAchievement results from work realizing ambition.
Adam AntLook, 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 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 HuxleyAmbition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
Jonathan SwiftThe 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 FieldBy 2014 we want to be internationally recognised as the number one club [Chelsea ambitions]
Peter KenyonSomeday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord. [Lofty ambition indeed!]
Eddie CondonLong-held ambition [on appearing in Coronation Street]
Ian McKellenHe had ambitions, at one time, to become a sex maniac, but he failed his practical.
Les DawsonTo 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 GracianMusic 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.
BabyfaceAnd remember, the people that you've seen here tonight are professionals, so please don't try any of this at home, because you are ugly and hung like a hampster. - Celebrity Naked Ambition (2003)
Nick FrostThough ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Hosea BallouAmbition 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 CookAmbition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
J M BarrieAmbition 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 not what man does... but what man would do.
Robert BrowningWhere 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 HumeA 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 HillmanAmbition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Thomas OtwayAs a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
Lynn DaviesDependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas JeffersonAmbition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
SallustWomen who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Timothy LearyAmbition, like a torrent, never looks back
Ben JonsonMost people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowBeware ambition; heaven is not reached with pride; but with submission
Thomas MiddletonPeople 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 MeadI have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
William HazlittDon't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand
William FeatherAmbition is a dream with a V8 engine.
Elvis PresleyA man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Marcus Aurelius
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