Ambition Quotes

Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.

Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

I knew I could sing. That one thing I did believe in was that I could sing, but then constantly getting rejected, it started to get me down. But my voice was always there and my dream and my ambition was always there when I went through bad times.

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.

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

Ambition never comes to an end.

I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.

I can't sing. Definitely no ambition in that area.

Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.

It was an easy choice to return with Lotus Renault GP as I have been impressed by the scope of the team's ambition.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

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

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

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

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

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

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

I always had ambition. I always knew I was going to go to college. I could party and do that stuff, but I always got straight A's and a 4.0 and all that.

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

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.

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

I have an ounce of Lady Gaga's full-bodied ambition.

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

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

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 wish I had a little more ambition. But then what would I do? Turn down more roles with more vehemence? Me no likey worky.

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.

I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it.

To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I shall defend until my dying day.

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

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

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

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