Ambition Quotes

2147 Ambition quotes by 1378 unique authors

With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's… — Shane Warne
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything… — Allen Tate
The Hindu marriage may be described as the union of two families. In this union, there is no room for petty ambitions and personal ego-trips.… — Dada Vaswani
Let the average man be put to the proof on the question of who is above, and his true position will be exposed. Let him… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
That is my ambition, to have killed more people-more helpless people-than any man or woman who has ever lived. — Jeffrey Dahmer
Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and… — Leon M. Lederman
Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of our own design.… — Jon Anderson
Day full-blown and splendid-day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter, The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness. — Walt Whitman
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… — Dom DeLuise
Were the talents and virtues which heaven has bestowed on men given merely to make them more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed to the follies… — Samuel Adams
Let me offer you, metaphorically, two magic wands that have sweeping powers to change society. With one wand you could wipe out all racism and… — Richard Lamm
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have as little political connection as… — George Washington
Such joy ambition finds. — John Milton
Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more… — Alessandro Del Piero
A play gets on Broadway by fluke. And you don't even start out with that ambition. When I do a play, the intention is just… — Richard Greenberg
Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, -it steals away… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and intellectual curiosity, and… — Timothy Gowers
We like them big ... but we'll settle for players with three kinds of bones - a funnybone, a wishbone and a backbone. The funnybone… — Duffy Daugherty
In all of nature structure determines function. Yet many people consider the marathoner and football linebacker all to be just one composite human being, an… — William Herbert Sheldon
I want to be anonymous . . . my ambition is to be completely forgotten, — Bob Kaufman
I hope the time will never come when I shall feel satisfied. To reach the goal of one's ambitions must be tragic. — N. C. Wyeth
The vigour of government is essential to the security of liberty. . . . a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of… — Alexander Hamilton
I regret trusting The Guardian. I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [The writer] was masked as a fan, but… — Lana Del Rey
Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease. — Herman Melville
We've got minds and souls as well as hearts; ambition and talents as well as beauty and accomplishments; and we want to live and learn… — Louisa May Alcott

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