Ambitions Quotes

387 Ambitions quotes by 324 unique authors

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to… — David Herbert Donald
Teamwork is not a matter of persuading yourself and your colleagues to set aside personal ambitions for the greater good. It's a matter of recognizing… — Greg Brown
Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books… — Saint Augustine
But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable. — Walker Percy
For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child,… — Andrea Dworkin
You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions. — Peter MacKay
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
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
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
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
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
I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy. — Louise Mensch
I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become. — Mike McGavick
It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer. — John Hurt
The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands. — Placido Domingo
Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would… — Rick Bass
You know, I stumble about what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I've never had ambitions. — Bryan Brown
I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to transition in, so… — Jeb Bush
I've always had high ambitions and aspirations. — James Dashner
From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about… — Louise Fletcher
I don't have any ambitions as an actor. I felt very uncomfortable doing it. The first take every day I'd open my mouth and no… — Evan Glodell
You can' t help being a musician because you've grown up with music, yet being one means being compared to your dad and being slated… — Dhani Harrison
A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy. — Fisher Ames

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