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In 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

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
Steven Brust

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
Ben Jonson

As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
Lord Byron

Ambition 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 Gawain

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 Carvalho

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.
Sir Roger L'Estrange

Ambition is not a vice of little people
Montaigne

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
Sallust

By 2014 we want to be internationally recognised as the number one club [Chelsea ambitions]
Peter Kenyon

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.
John Keats

It 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 Tynan

The 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 Schumpeter

Look, 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 Kennedy

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
Bob Dylan

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
J M Barrie

I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.
Oliver Reed

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 Coubertin

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
William Hazlitt

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
Walter Landor

Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave.
William Davenant

The 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 Field

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead.
Pearl Bailey

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
Balthasar Gracian

Ambition 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 Dahlberg

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Sir John Denham

Nothing 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 Fontenelle

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves
Robert Burton

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 Mead

Music 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.
Babyface

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
Michael Korda

It 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 Fox

The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
John D Rockefeller

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
Elvis Presley

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest
Oliver Goldsmith

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
Quintilian

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
Jonathan Swift

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
Adam Ant

A 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 Huxley

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 Bongo

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas Jefferson

A 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 Aurelius

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Marcus Aurelius

Long-held ambition [on appearing in Coronation Street]
Ian McKellen

Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back
Ben Jonson

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, Is in a prince the virtue (The Bashful Lover)
Philip Massinger

Beware ambition; heaven is not reached with pride; but with submission
Thomas Middleton

Where 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 Mirren

The only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions
Mike Atherton



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