Ambition Quotes

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

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.

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.