Ambition Quotes: Fuel Your Aspirations and Dreams (Page 3)

"Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue"

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

"Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs"

"Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future"

"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"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do"

Robert Browning, Poet

"But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress"

Anjelica Huston, Actress

"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"

Joe DiMaggio, Athlete

"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"

Meg Tilly, Actress

"Ambition aspires to descend"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

"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"

Pearl Bailey, Actress

"As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman"

Lynn Davies, Athlete

"Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds"

J. M. Barrie, Novelist

"My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons"

Gene Tunney, Athlete

"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in"

Bill Bradley, Politician

"The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

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

A. C. Benson, Author

"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"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list"

Charles Babbage, Mathematician

"A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune"

Wilson Mizner, Dramatist

"Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition"

Brenda Blethyn, Actress

"I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious"

Alan Hansen, Athlete

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

Aslan Maskhadov, Politician

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

William Feather, Author

"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"

Rob Morrow, Actor

"My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living"

Juliette Binoche, Actress

"My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream"

David Hasselhoff, Actor

"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"

Dom DeLuise, Actor

"It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children"

Paul Auster, Author

"My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs"

Philip Levine, Poet

"Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself"

Rebecca Miller, Director

"Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village"

John George Nicolay, Writer

"Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me"

Anna Held, Entertainer

"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"

Arthur Koestler, Novelist

"It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition"

Bono, Musician

"It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be"

Alan Hansen, Athlete

"The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms"

James F. Cooper, Novelist

"My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing"

Van Morrison, Musician

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