Quotes of: Ambition Keyword

I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.

Geoffrey Boycott

An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.

Criss Jami

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

Horace Walpole

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.

J. G. Ballard

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

Edward Dahlberg

Something happened in the nineties. There was a shift. I don't want to blame it on grunge or the rise of indie - but that was basically it. It was seen as dirty and kind of ignorant to have these ambitions, to want to be a big band.

Brandon Flowers

Literature is fighting for its very life because compromise is mistook for ambition, and joining up is preferred to standing out …

Ben Marcus

I have ambitions to set records which will be hard to chase down, like getting more than 100 caps for Ireland.

Brian O'Driscoll

Service is a deceptively profound way to prove not only what you can do for the world, but what you can tell the world to expect from you and your ambitions.

Chelsea Clinton

I stand in the way of no one's ambition. I only ask that no one stand in the way of the people's well being and the nation's progress.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

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

Gene Tunney

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.

Jock Sturges

I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.

David Byrne

Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.

John Strachan

I came to declare that I am a friend to Arabs, at a time when it is not easy to be friend to Arabs, because nowadays those who have ambitions and interests would not befriend Arab.

George Galloway

I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.

Im Dong-Hyun

Old Ghost Woman: [singing] ambition is false fame and will fall, death will reign, man falls in vain

Throne of Blood

Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.

Carmen Kass

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

Elihu Root

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Carl von Clausewitz