Ambition Quotes

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It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me. — Franz Liszt
The treasury of America lies in those ambitions, those energies, that cannot be restricted to a special favored class. It depends upon the inventions of… — Woodrow Wilson
I think we are destroying the minds of America and that has been one of my lifelong ambitions. — John Kricfalusi
The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim… — Alva Myrdal
I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist…..I had lost all interest in the art shown… — Jean Dubuffet
My love for my children makes me glad that I am what I am, and keeps me from desiring to be otherwise; and yet, when… — James Weldon Johnson
But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of… — James Weldon Johnson
Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life. — Walter Scott
I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill,… — William Butler Yeats
God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind… — Martin Luther
Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of destiny and will;… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste. — Jean Patou
The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks- they spend a lot of time talking in… — Shane MacGowan
If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters — E F Schumacher
Quite often, ambition operates on a level of irritation. Not even jealousy, just irritation. — Geoff Dyer
Rail as they will about 'discrimination,' women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed… — Pat Buchanan
We have now an American political party and a European one. Not all Americans who vote for the European party want to become Europeans. But… — Harvey Mansfield
Everyone is ambition. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or to do. — Jean Monnet
Going after anything worthwile in life entailed risk, of course. A man of ambition and courage didn't let that stop or delay him. A man… — John Jakes
He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was… — Unknown Author
Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice,… — Elihu Root
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition. — Riccardo Muti
My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of… — Richard Rorty
The way is open to everybody who has the will, the ambition, the respect for work, and the IT. — Elsa Schiaparelli
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue. — Philip Massinger

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