I would like to lose some of the weight that I have put on since I stopped playing football [on ambitions for dancing]
John BarnesWhen ambition ends, happiness begins.
Thomas MertonThough 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 TitmussMy ambition is to be happy.
Penelope CruzAmbition, in a private man is a vice, Is in a prince the virtue (The Bashful Lover)
Philip MassingerDependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas JeffersonWhen 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 CarvalhoThe man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
John D RockefellerBeware ambition; heaven is not reached with pride; but with submission
Thomas MiddletonAs falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
Lord ByronThough 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 RileyWith 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 GoldIt 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 FoxModeration 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 DisraeliIt is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
Kenneth TynanAmbition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
J M BarrieGolf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.
Alistair CookeAn ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
Michael KordaThe 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 SchumpeterAmbition is not a vice of little people
MontaigneAmbition 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 GawainNothing 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 FontenelleThere 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's cradle oftenest is its grave
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHe had ambitions, at one time, to become a sex maniac, but he failed his practical.
Les DawsonIt's been a lifetime ambition of mine to play an 007 villain.
Angelina JolieA man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Marcus AureliusTo 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 LubbockIt'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 That sense of ambition, of aspiration, of moving forward, will be very important [leaving the Labour party then, Hazel?]
Hazel BlearsMusic 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.
BabyfaceAmbition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
SallustHe who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
Niccolo MachiavelliAnd 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 FrostA 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 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 DahlbergBut 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 ArndtA 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 AureliusOur 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 AugustineThe greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
Marquis De VauvenarguesThe 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 GowonLook, 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 KennedyThe tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability
William FeatherSomeday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord. [Lofty ambition indeed!]
Eddie CondonOf all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest
Oliver GoldsmithAmbition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund BurkeAmbition 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.
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