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.
I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.
My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung.
I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well.
I used to do a little acting in school. It was my first love, and I really thought I would be doing it as a career. I really wanted to complete that part of my ambition.
Never permit fears, doubts, circumstances, laziness or the lack of ambition to force you into leaving any stone unturned.
Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.
Ambition is the necessary spur of a great mind to great action; when acting upon a weak mind it impels it to absurdity, or sours it with discontent.
There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.
I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.
An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
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.
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.
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.
Literature is fighting for its very life because compromise is mistook for ambition, and joining up is preferred to standing out …
I have ambitions to set records which will be hard to chase down, like getting more than 100 caps for Ireland.
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.
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.
My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
