Quotes of: Ambition Keyword

I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions.

Paul Shaffer

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

Thomas Jefferson

Ambition is the bridge between reality and living a dream.

Addoo S. Mukhtar

I admire Elliott Carter endlessly. But I have no ambitions to emulate him.

Andre Previn

Watch out for your ambitions: they may play on your values

Life

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

John Ruskin

The ambitions are wake up, breathe, keep breathing.

Blood Sugar

When I was 27, I didn't have a clue what was going on! At that age, to have that much power and to have that much ambition is something.

Stephen Graham

Peace is the first casualty in every ambition.

Arjun: Without a Doubt

Ambition and stupidity are a dangerous combination.

Odd Apocalypse

But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.

The Library at Night

Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.

Lily Cole

The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.

Mason Cooley

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

Philip Massinger

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

Robert Browning

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

Sallust

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

Thomas Otway

there is little difference between man and beast, but what ambition and glory makes.

Margaret Cavendish

When you've accomplished a certain amount in your career, you're not so focused on your ambitions.

Michael Douglas

An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

Michael Korda

There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

Ruth J. Simmons