Ambition Quotes

My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.

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.

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

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.

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.