Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn't just a desperate quest… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
“Men seeking power only acknowledged fact insofar as it supported their ambitions.” — Curtis Craddock Copy Share Image
Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so… — Anne Shirley Copy Share Image
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement. — James A. Champy Copy Share Image
I feel bad that people think that "feminism" is a dirty word. I don't understand that at all, I'm proud to be… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know. — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,'… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Birthdays are a time when one stock takes, which means, I suppose, a good spineless mope: I scan my horizon and can… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
I have many years to get better and better, and that has to be my ambition. The day you think there is… — Lionel Messi Copy Share Image
The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
“The greatest musicians never cared to be rock stars. They just wanted to play. The greatest actors never cared to be movie… — Ron Baratono Copy Share Image
I regret trusting The Guardian. I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [The writer] was masked as… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
Joan Rivers is a very wise lady. We're good friends, and I find her very much an inspiration as to how to… — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
“Ambition is the undoing of men. They always want what they know to be impossible and unattainable. And they are unaware of… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
As Madonna once said, I'm tough, I'm ambitious and if that makes me a bitch, that's what I am — Madonna Copy Share Image
It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I see myself as having fulfilled a lot of my ambition. All the things I dreamed of achieving, I've achieved for the… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I believe that all technological societies tend to self-destruct. The reason is that the very things that make us a successful technological… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier… — Katey Sagal Copy Share Image
It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
