Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious. — Alan Hansen Copy Share Image
I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best. — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
It was very hard training just once a week when my ultimate ambition was to play professionally. — Stuart Dallas Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
“If you wanted to be the best then you had to swallow your pride and become a student of the game first.” — Jon Osborne Copy Share Image
“There is, in fact, a primary driving force behind women's reluctance to see their ambition as a virtue.” — Debra Condren Copy Share Image
The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest… — William Osler Copy Share Image
What is it about politics, though, which makes people from the same tribe tear each other apart? Perhaps ego and ambition have… — Cathy Newman Copy Share Image
“I have no ambition to play the part of a mother, and why should I interfere with her illusions? I find it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Life has taught me to live with no expectations, but with ambition, to love with no boundaries, but with full force and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you wish to be a great family-man learn philosophy of people, if you wish to be a great businessman learn philosophy… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting… — Pindar Copy Share Image
My God, grant that my bounty may be a clear and transparent river, flowing from pure charity, and uncontaminated by self-love, ambition,… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies to liberty; and it is certain, that this steady conduct of theirs… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“However, because ambition is easily disguised in Christian circles and couched in spiritual language (the need to fulfill the Great Commission and… — Gary L. McIntosh Copy Share Image
The amount of guilt you deal with as a parent is pretty profound. It's a constant balancing act. I'm an ambitious person,… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and every thing that… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
In London - and forget those extra public pressures on politicians - the lovely old Sloane world of manor houses simply hasn't… — Peter York Copy Share Image
I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.… — Rowan Atkinson 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
