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 MeadIt'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 By 2014 we want to be internationally recognised as the number one club [Chelsea ambitions]
Peter KenyonThe men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves
Robert BurtonThough ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
QuintilianMost people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowA 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 AureliusNothing 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 FontenelleOf all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest
Oliver GoldsmithNothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
Balthasar GracianWith 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 GoldModeration 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 DisraeliWomen who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Timothy LearyThere 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 greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
Marquis De VauvenarguesBeware ambition; heaven is not reached with pride; but with submission
Thomas MiddletonAmbition, like a torrent, never looks back
Ben JonsonWhen ambition ends, happiness begins.
Thomas MertonMusic 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.
BabyfaceThe man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
John D RockefellerThough ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Hosea BallouI have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.
Oliver ReedAmbition 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 HallA man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Marcus AureliusAmbition'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 DawsonA young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
Steven BrustWhen 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 CarvalhoMy ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.
Juliette BinocheThe tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability
William FeatherIt 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 TynanCharacter 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 makes more trusty slaves than need
Ben JonsonIt 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 FoxDependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas JeffersonIn 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 BoveeIndividual 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 AdamsBasically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
Bob DylanAs a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
Lynn DaviesA 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 HuxleyOther 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
MontaigneAmbition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
Walter LandorThe 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 HazlittWhere 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 MirrenFestival 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 CoubertinAmbition, in a private man is a vice, Is in a prince the virtue (The Bashful Lover)
Philip MassingerAmbition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
SallustAs falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
Lord ByronAt 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 DaliThe 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!
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