Ambition Quotes

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

Mel is nuts. He puts on a suit and a tie and acts like a normal person so people think he's okay. He's definitely out in left field. He's got the ambition of a boy.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

I can't sing. Definitely no ambition in that area.

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.

My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.

My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.

Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

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

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.

The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.

Somebody ought to tell him his ambition is showing.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!