The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.
Ambition Quotes (418 Quotes)
We can do something truly exceptional ... something that demands a new standard of imagination and ambition.
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.
I was really short. I remember going to the doctor to see if there were injections I could take to be taller. But whenever we ran a lap, I wanted to run the fastest. I don't know why, on the wheel of fortune of personality traits, it stopped on ambition and hustle and drive.
In any organization men would move up form the bottom to the top. That develops loyalty, ambition and talent, because there is a chance for promotion.
There shall your master have a thousand loves,
A mother, and a mistress, and a friend,
A phoenix, captain, and an enemy,
A guide, a goddess, and a sovereign,
A counsellor, a traitress, and a dear;
His humble ambition, proud humility,
His jarring concord, and his discord dulcet,
His faith, his sweet disaster; with a world
Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms
That blinking Cupid gossips.
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.
He was agonizingly long, ... but don't make the mistake thinking that is a fatal error. I've known him as a governor for a long time and I think he's extremely talented. He has the strength of being able to focus. He has a single ambition, and he has always had this ambition, and it is to someday be president of the United States.
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire to our sons, ambition but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the productive man a yet higher species.
He is still hoping and cautiously optimistic that the EU will present a strong proposal next week comparable to the level of ambition that the United States has shown on domestic support.
As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.
I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of lifeand the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make theday's work like a happy child at play.
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.
We have all these movies from the '50s, but they're told from such a male perspective and such a '50s ideology. You wouldn't see Bettie's story from her point of view. People wouldn't be interested in what it was really like or take her story at face value, ... Films from that time are hilarious because of their complete condemnation of any kind of female initiative or ambition. It was such a contradictory world that even the law itself didn't have a clear handle on it.... I really wanted to get across that moment in time of naivet, fear and panic.
Learn to live in this world with self-respect. You should always cherish some ambition of doing something in this world. But remember that the age of selflessness has ended. A new epoch is set in. All things are now possible because of your being able to participate in the politics and legislature of your country.
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Actors are the only honest hypocrites. Their life is a voluntary dream and the height of their ambition is to be beside themselves. They wear the livery of other men's fortunes their very thoughts are not their own.
We look for responsibility with their ambition. Our families will suffer a little for the consequences of that, but we are all doing it for our professional ambitions,
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
Paul and myself are not talking about Europe just yet. The ambition was to stay in the Premier League and we look like we're going to fulfill that ambition. We never thought we would get to the final of the League Cup. It's fairytale stuff.
When they announced it, it seemed to underscore that they were the only company on the Internet with the vision, ambition and technology to do this. It seemed to only enhance Google's reputation.
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
But he's got vision, and he's got tremendous ambition. He wants to make the greatest film ever made.
I really wanted to come here and see New York City. It's been an ambition of mine. This race is very short for me, but it's good for me, too. I know it's going to be tough, but I've come here to do my best.
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.
I stand behind that record totally, and I always want Madonna to do well, ... but the Mount Everest of ambition for me would be to have a William Orbit record top the charts. If I got an album with my name on it to No. 1 on the Billboard album charts, I would be smoking a cigar.
My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.
We feel he has the energy and ambition.
Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice It is our true policy to st.
It's just a dream come true - it's the pinnacle. It's a lifetime ambition. I was born in '72 so I was only two years old when we went there in '74.
My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
It is mysterious that the ambition should have come first - the wish to be a writer, to have that distinction, that fame - and that this ambition should have come long before I could think of anything to write about.
Mel is nuts. He puts on a suit and a tie and acts like a normal person so people think he's okay. He's definitely out in left field. He's got the ambition of a boy.
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases.
Moscow, breathing fire like a human volcano with its smouldering lava of passion, ambition and politics, its hurly-burly of meetings and entertainment. . . . Moscow seethes and bubbles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for something new . . .
I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive -- besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.
Firm, faithful, and devoted, full of energy and zeal, and truth, he labors for his race he clears their painful way to improvement he hews down like a giant the prejudices of creed and caste that encumber it. He may be stern he may be exacting he may be ambitious yet but his is the sternness of the warrior Greatheart, who guards his pilgrim convoy from the onslaught of Apollyon. His is the exaction of the apostle, who speaks but for Christ, when he says, ''Whosoever will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.'' His is the ambition of the high master-spirit, which aims to fill a place in the first rank of those who are redeemed from the earth -- who stand without fault before the throne of God, who share the last mighty victories of the Lamb, who are called, and chosen, and faithful.
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
We haven't run out of ambition or growth. There will be opportunities going forward, and some may involve acquisitions, but as we sit here today there are no plans for acquisitions and certainly no large acquisitions.
Better is a big ambition. Some people don't want that ambition as a writer. Some people seem to want to unsettle the reader. I don't know.
God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.