My 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 BongoThe 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 SchumpeterThough ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
QuintilianIndividual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it class spirit, esprit de corps, good fellowship, or good will to men.
Herbert Baxter AdamsDependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas JeffersonThe men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves
Robert BurtonOf all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest
Oliver GoldsmithA 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 HillmanDon't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand
William FeatherA 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 HuxleyIn 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 BoveeAmbition, like a torrent, never looks back
Ben JonsonAt the age of six I wantd to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
Salvador DaliAmbition 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 CookThat sense of ambition, of aspiration, of moving forward, will be very important [leaving the Labour party then, Hazel?]
Hazel BlearsAmbition 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 GawainTo 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 LubbockAmbition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund BurkeNeither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.
John KeatsMost people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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 DaviesAnd 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 FrostHe who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
Niccolo MachiavelliA man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Marcus AureliusAmbition makes more trusty slaves than need
Ben JonsonAmbition is not a vice of little people
MontaigneFestival 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 CoubertinIn 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 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's cradle oftenest is its grave
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowA man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead.
Pearl BaileyThe man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
John D RockefellerAmbition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
Jonathan SwiftThere 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 DykeThe only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions
Mike AthertonBut 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 ArndtGolf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.
Alistair CookeAmbition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
Walter LandorWhere 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 HumeLong-held ambition [on appearing in Coronation Street]
Ian McKellenAmbition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
SallustNothing 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 FontenelleAs falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
Lord ByronThe 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 FieldAchievement results from work realizing ambition.
Adam AntThe greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
Marquis De VauvenarguesCharacter 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 not what man does... but what man would do.
Robert BrowningAmbition 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 - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
J M Barrie
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