Ambition Quotes

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.

Sometimes with people I know, they're playing the hunky action guy and there's resistance to them coming out because it's so connected to straight masculinity. There's a plastic kind of movie star who has a very short shelf with very small kind of ambition. I see that but I still don't agree with it.

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

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

I find ambition really attractive too - if someone's good at something they love doing. I want someone who is driven.

I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it.

I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

I was not born with tremendous ambition.

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.

Individual 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.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.

I'm going to let love lead the way, always. And I was born with this blind - blind ambition, and it's kind of gotten me here to this point. And I think that I'll stick to it.

My ambition is to be happy.

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

Ambition aspires to descend.