Quotes of: Ambition Keyword

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

It's okay to have personal ambitions, but you have to take someone with you.

Roger Staubach

My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.

Neil Kinnock

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

Daley Thompson

You may delay your ambition, but never forget your ambition.

Amit Kalantri

Meanness looks through one eye only, ambition is blind.

Russian

It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.

John Hurt

Personal ambition is 'I want to be CEO.' Greater vision ambition is, 'I want to lead this company so that people want to work here.'

Srikumar Rao

A man with too much ambition cannot sleep in peace.

Chadian

He who opens his heart for ambition, closes it for the rest.

Chinese

If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.

Whitfield Diffie

If you want to go up in the world, veil ambition with the forms of humanity.

Chinese

Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.

Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth

We can always find each other, we girls with secrets.

Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition, and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

Tallulah Bankhead

I don't think that ambition should not be in the dictionary of entrepreneurs. But our ambition should be realistic. You have to realise that you can't do everything.

Mukesh Ambani

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

A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.

Neel Burton

Who's more likely to succeed - someone with high skill and no ambition, or no skill and high ambition? If you're an entrepreneur, you can hire as many skilled people for your business as you want.

Max McKeown

Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.

Bear Grylls