Ambition Quotes

Ambition aspires to descend.

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

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.

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

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.

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency.