Ambition Quotes

2147 Ambition quotes by 1378 unique authors

It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world. — Abba Eban
The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to… — Aleister Crowley
We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without… — George Sand
There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the… — Pindar
His enemies said he [Robert Kennedy] was consumed with selfish ambition, a ruthless opportunist exploiting his brother's legend. But he was too passionate and too… — Jack Newfield
You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions. — Peter MacKay
If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution -… — Rob Morrow
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. — Jessye Norman
You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the… — Michael Lewis
With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way… — Azim Premji
I applied a lot of the same principles I used in hockey into my acting. I might have had some naive ambitions of making the… — Vincent Piazza
My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize. — Alexandra Roach
Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego… — Donald Sutherland
Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a… — Joseph Joubert
In the world of interactive multi-media highways we are all traveling somewhere interactively and we are all shopping for something, our dreams, our hopes, our… — Frederick Lenz
My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about. — Johann Lamont
We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns. — Johann Lamont
My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7. — Joshua Lederberg
There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition. — Ruth Simmons
Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest. — Daley Thompson
I always had ambition. I always knew I was going to go to college. I could party and do that stuff, but I always got… — Miles Teller
Steer clear of pot. It's an ambition zapper. Wait till you've made it. When you're 45 buy a bong. But for now, buy a suit. — Greg Gutfeld
People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and the… — Tony Benn
We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance… — Vance Havner
An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out… — Criss Jami

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