Ambition Quotes

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

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

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency.

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

I got my degree. More importantly, I got a key to American opportunity. That's who we are - a nation that rewards ambition with opportunity. Where hard work can lead to success, no matter where you start.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens.

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.

I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.