Ambition Quotes - Page 7

I dread our own power, and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded... We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing, and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin.

The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.

I never had the ambition to be something. I had the ambition to do something.

The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.

generally speaking, we are all happier when we are still striving for achievement than when the prize is in our hands.

Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.

If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

What argufies pride and ambition? Soon or late death will take us in tow: Each bullet has got its commission, And when our time's come we must go.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.

May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is -- and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

Nature has a way sometimes of reminding Man of just how small he is. She occasionally throws up terrible offspring's of our pride and carelessness to remind us of how puny we really are in the face of a tornado, an earthquake, or a Godzilla. The reckless ambitions of Man are often dwarfed by their dangerous consequences. For now, Godzilla - that strangely innocent and tragic monster - has gone to earth. Whether he returns or not, or is never again seen by human eyes, the things he has taught us remain...

My ambition was to live like music.

I always knew I wanted to be somebody. I think that's where it begins. People decide, "I want to be somebody. I want to make a contribution. I want to leave my mark here." Then different factors contribute to how you will do that.

All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.