Ambition Quotes

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.

It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

I am still full of ambition.

My ambition is to not have to work any more. In 10 years I want to stop, and I want to be living with my family, taking care of my house. I want to be a housewife.

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.

I go through stages. Randomly, I'll be attracted to a crazy rocker with tattoos. And I find that I'm extremely attracted to ambition and wit.

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.

Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.

Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.

My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.