Ambition Quotes - page 3

Ambition powerful source of good and ill. (Edward Young)
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. View quote
Katharine Hepburn
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. View quote
Walter Savage Landor
What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan. View quote
Oliver Herford
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
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. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead. View quote
C. S. Lewis
Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things. View quote
Albert Einstein
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. View quote
Orison Swett Marden
Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity. View quote
Annette Funicello
I'm fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey that a man of similar ambition, of similar intelligence makes. What sort of concessions does a woman have to make? Does she have to work 20 percent harder than a man? (Charles Cumming)
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. View quote
Alva Myrdal
There is a big divergence between views on a variety of policy issues from fiscal stimulus to financial regulation. It's my hope and my ambition for the economics profession that as we advance our knowledge, that those discussions will narrow in their focus, and that it will help to have more prudent policy-making down the road. View quote
Lars Peter Hansen
You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition. View quote
Michel Onfray
I see my face in the mirror, and I said, No, my ambition is not to be an actor. View quote
Dino De Laurentiis
One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters. View quote
Lawrence Welk
My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs. View quote
Philip Levine
I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in, or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president. View quote
John McCain
It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage. View quote
Doris Day
Longevity, for a columnist, is a simple proposition: Once you start, you don't stop. You do it until you die or can no longer put a sentence together. It has always been my intention to die at my desk, although my most cherished ambition is to outlive the estate tax. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition. (John Adams)
There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state, the majesty of the people, call it what you will - a doge, an avoyer, an archon, a president, a consul, a syndic; this becomes at once an object of ambition and dispute, and, in time, of division, faction, sedition, and rebellion. View quote
John Adams
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust. View quote
Marquis de Sade
Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
We hold that the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty, is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance, ambition and intrigue. View quote
Thomas Paine