Explore Quotes on Ambition

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

High expectations are the key to everything.

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

I have an ounce of Lady Gaga's full-bodied ambition.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.

My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.

If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.

I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor. That's a lucky opportunity, and that drives me to want to be good at that.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.