Ambition Quote by Helen Mirren

Somebody ought to tell him his ambition is showing.

— Harry Essex

Everyone is ambition. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or to do.

— Jean Monnet

It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.

— Alan Hansen

There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second…

— Neil Kinnock

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is…

— Edward Dahlberg

He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity

— Confucius

Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.

— Samuel Richardson

Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.

— John Adams