But 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 ArndtAmbition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Sir John DenhamAmbition makes more trusty slaves than need
Ben JonsonAmbition 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 ambition is to be happy.
Penelope CruzThere 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 has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
Walter LandorHe had ambitions, at one time, to become a sex maniac, but he failed his practical.
Les DawsonAmbition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
SallustWhere 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 HumeI have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.
Oliver ReedI would like to lose some of the weight that I have put on since I stopped playing football [on ambitions for dancing]
John BarnesMy ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.
Juliette BinocheSomeday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord. [Lofty ambition indeed!]
Eddie CondonAmbition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Thomas OtwayAmbition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when they have tasted of their bane, cannot rest till they drink, and then can much less rest till they die
Joseph HallUnruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.
Sir Roger L'EstrangeThe men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves
Robert BurtonAs falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
Lord ByronMy 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 BongoWhere 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 MirrenA 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 HuxleyI have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
William HazlittCharacter 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 KellerThe tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability
William FeatherThe only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions
Mike AthertonAmbition is not a vice of little people
MontaigneBy 2014 we want to be internationally recognised as the number one club [Chelsea ambitions]
Peter KenyonDon't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand
William FeatherAn ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
Michael KordaThough ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Hosea BallouMost people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowIt 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 TynanA young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
Steven BrustI've long harboured radio presenting ambitions. [Unfortunately the British public doesn't harbour that same ambition back!]
Abi TitmussIt's been a lifetime ambition of mine to play an 007 villain.
Angelina JolieThat sense of ambition, of aspiration, of moving forward, will be very important [leaving the Labour party then, Hazel?]
Hazel BlearsNeither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.
John KeatsAmbition is not what man does... but what man would do.
Robert BrowningOther 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
MontaigneWomen who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Timothy LearyI have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive - besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.
Lord ByronGolf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.
Alistair CookeAmbition is a dream with a V8 engine.
Elvis PresleyAmbition 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 DahlbergModeration 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 DisraeliIn 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 People 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 MeadThe greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
Marquis De VauvenarguesAs a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
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