Quotes of: Ambition Keyword

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

High and holy ambition--to be a saint--is not opposed to holy humility--total reliance on God's grace. Exactly the opposite. Ambition without humility is ambition that fails. It is pride, which goes before a fall (Prov 16:18). Humility without ambiti...

Prayer for Beginners

Ambition destroys its possessor.

Hebrew

Ambition begets troubles.

Senegalese

My second wife left me because she said I was too ambitious. She didn't realize that it is only the dying who are free from ambition. And they probably have the ambition to live. Some men disguise their ambition--that's all. I was in a position to he...

Loser Takes All

Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.

Werner Herzog

Ambition and revenge are always hungry.

Danish

False ambition serves the neck.

Egyptian

Ambition and fleas jump high.

German

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Hungarian

It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.

Majandra Delfino

I have a few personal ambitions for the band.

John Deacon

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

James Madison

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Susan Sontag

There's a lot of obsession about people's personal ambitions.

Jeb Bush

I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become.

Mike McGavick

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.

Erwin Raphael McManus

I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.

Vagit Alekperov

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

Paul Ryan

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Adam Smith