Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
~By Quintilian ~
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.
~By Frances Burney ~
It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.
~By Franz Liszt ~
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.
~By Aslan Maskhadov ~
I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.
~By Joe DiMaggio ~
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
~By James Madison ~
A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
~By Steven Brust ~
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.
~By Ben Jonson ~
Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
~By Bob Riley ~
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
~By Sallust ~
If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!
~By Helen Reddy ~
One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
~By Philip Levine ~
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.
~By Noah Webster ~
In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
~By Liberty Hyde Bailey ~
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
~By Timothy Leary ~
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.
~By Michael J. Fox ~
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
~By Salvador Dali ~
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.
~By Herbert Baxter Adams ~
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
~By John Ruskin ~
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.
~By Heather Donahue ~
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
~By Carl Sagan ~
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.
~By Rob Morrow ~
I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.
~By Ally Sheedy ~
My ambition is peace and perfection.
~By DeForest Kelley ~
As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
~By Lynn Davies ~
If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
~By Karl Von Clausewitz ~
It's okay to have personal ambitions, but you have to take someone with you.
~By Roger Staubach ~
To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I shall defend until my dying day.
~By Rosa Bonheur ~
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.
~By Paul Daniels ~
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.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
I had found myself a new mission - and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly.
~By James W. Black ~
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
~By Herbert Kaufman ~
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do.
~By Louise Fletcher ~
In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.
~By Bob Edwards ~
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.
~By Daniel P. Moynihan ~
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
~By Edmund Burke ~
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
Ambition aspires to descend.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.
~By Graham Roberts ~
I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.
~By Eva Gabor ~
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.
~By Kimi Raikkonen ~
That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.
~By Jock Sturges ~
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
~By Bono ~
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.
~By Lajos Kossuth ~
Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.
~By Thomas Bulfinch ~
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
~By Sai Baba ~
The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
~By Katharine Hepburn ~
The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.
~By Zach Wamp ~
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.
~By Johnny Depp ~
I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.
~By Ella Maillart ~
Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.
~By Donald Sutherland ~
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
~By Saint Augustine ~
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
~By John Webster ~
All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.
~By Charles Cotton ~
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.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
~By Peter Ustinov ~
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.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.
~By Georg Solti ~
I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there's this pressure.
~By David Friedman ~
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it.
~By Claire Bloom ~
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
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.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.
~By Oliver Herford ~
Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.
~By James Joyce ~
It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.
~By Lee Atwater ~
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
~By Helmut Jahn ~
I have no political ambitions for myself or my children.
~By Joseph P. Kennedy ~
I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.
~By Meg Tilly ~
The United States must also continue to push the United Nations Security Council for strong action to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions. In the meantime, it is our job to take meaningful steps to eliminate the threats posed by Iran.
~By Allyson Schwartz ~
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
~By Sallust ~
I think back and marvel that my ambitions were so small.
~By Helen Reddy ~
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
~By Susan Sontag ~
Big results require big ambitions.
~By Heraclitus ~
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
~By Hosea Ballou ~
My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
~By A. C. Benson ~
Time is the only critic without ambition.
~By John Steinbeck ~
I am still full of ambition.
~By Jan Timman ~
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.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.
~By Lajos Kossuth ~
You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.
~By Kit Williams ~
The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.
~By William Feather ~
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
~By Barack Obama ~
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.
~By Wilfred Owen ~
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