Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
Robert BrowningThere 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 is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Thomas OtwayUnruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.
Sir Roger L'EstrangeBy 2014 we want to be internationally recognised as the number one club [Chelsea ambitions]
Peter KenyonOn her childhood ambitions: I wanted to own a chain of hotels. Another crazy idea was to be Governor of California.
CapriceNothing 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 FontenelleThe 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 SchumpeterLook, 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 KennedyI've long harboured radio presenting ambitions. [Unfortunately the British public doesn't harbour that same ambition back!]
Abi TitmussAs falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
Lord ByronBeware ambition; heaven is not reached with pride; but with submission
Thomas MiddletonAn ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
Michael KordaA 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 HillmanThat sense of ambition, of aspiration, of moving forward, will be very important [leaving the Labour party then, Hazel?]
Hazel BlearsHe had ambitions, at one time, to become a sex maniac, but he failed his practical.
Les DawsonDon't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand
William FeatherWith 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 GoldIndividual 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 AdamsSomeday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord. [Lofty ambition indeed!]
Eddie CondonMy ambition is to be happy.
Penelope CruzNothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
Balthasar GracianAmbition 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 drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
SallustThe tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability
William FeatherAmbition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund BurkeThough ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Hosea BallouThe men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves
Robert BurtonAmbition 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 GawainNeither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.
John KeatsIt'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 Festival 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 CoubertinThe man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
John D RockefellerAmbition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
J M BarrieWomen who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Timothy LearyWhen 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 is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Sir John DenhamOther passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation
MontaigneWhere 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 MirrenEngland'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 DaviesIn 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 BoveeWhen ambition ends, happiness begins.
Thomas MertonA 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 AureliusIt 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 FoxThe 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 HazlittPublic 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 RileyI have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.
Oliver ReedThe 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 FieldModeration 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 DisraeliA man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead.
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