Ambition Quotes

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.

I have a lot of ambition.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.

Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition.

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

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

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.

You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.

I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.

I don't have that same ambition I had when I was younger.

I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live.

My ambition is peace and perfection.

Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream.

My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.