Ambition Quotes

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.

There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.

It was an easy choice to return with Lotus Renault GP as I have been impressed by the scope of the team's ambition.

People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific.

An actor should always let humility outweigh ambition.

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.

My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung.

An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.