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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
— Ban Ki-moon
I've become a captive of my own ambitions.
— Patsy Cline
Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
— Bryant H. McGill
If you cannot do great things in life, make sure you do the small things in a great way.
— Habeeb Akande
Love is but a frailty of mind when 'tis not with ambition joined." -Sir Thomas Seymour
— Jacqueline Kolosov
Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful.
— Babyface
But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.
— Seth Grahame-Smith
I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.
— Joss Whedon
It's a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.
— Kevin Spacey
There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.
— Criss Jami
If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry- great. To have hopes, dreams- great.
— Johnny Depp
Leadership is not about your ambition. It is about bringing out the ambitions of your team.
— Cheryl A. Bachelder
Education is a lifetime knowledge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You might be a redneck if your biggest ambition in life is to git that big ole coon. The one what hangs 'round over yonder, back'ah Bubba's barn ...
— Jeff Foxworthy
Boredom is actually a sign of ambition. So act on it.
— Gregor Collins
It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.
— Richard Koch
Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
— Daley Thompson
Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character
— Edward Bates
We aren't a curse upon the world. We are her new eyes. Her brain, testes, ovaries ... her ambition and her heart. Her voice. So sing. (556)
— David Brin
Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.
— John Webster
Most minds think from A to B to G to O, or hold goals and ambitions to keep them going.
— Lynette Fromme
Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.
— Albert Einstein
Russians have different far lofty ambitions; more of a spiritual kind. It's more about your relationship with God .
— Vladimir Putin
A man is not a tree' ... If we remain where we start from we will neither grow nor flourish.
— June Jordan
A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
— Marcus Aurelius
Always stay one step a head, unless you're already there
— Benny Bellamacina
Give your employees a mission that matches their ambitions. When you challenge people, they surprise you.
— Richard Branson
Caesar gave the ultimate definition of ambition when he said: 'Better to be the chief of a village than a subaltern in Rome'.
— Fernando Pessoa
Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.
— Tanith Lee
I never had a childhood. Not like the rest of them anyway. I had a starting point from which I have never stopped running.
— Dave Matthes
A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.
— John Adams
You will see true character after a defeated ambition
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.
— Fernando Torres
The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership .
— Minoru Mori
How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.
— Steven Erikson
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
— Jonas Salk
As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.
— Hamid Karzai
Popularity makes no sense If your fame is a shame.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
My ambition from the very beginning was to make a good part for myself, something differently to what lately I've been doing.
— Harrison Ford
At the end of the day let their be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today.
— Noel DeJesus
I'm going to be a great film star. That is, if booze and sex don't get me first.
— Jay Presson Allen
I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
— Abraham Lincoln
A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.
— A.O. Scott
My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.
— Hilary Mantel
Ambition and stupidity are a dangerous combination.
— Dean Koontz
Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
It's been a lifetime ambition of mine to play an 007 villain.
— Angelina Jolie
A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.
— Criss Jami
I'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine.
— James Frey
People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.
— Diane Setterfield
Cecil: "A cup of love is greater than a pitcher full of ambition.
— William Carmichael
Not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions.
— Cornelia Parker
Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called human beings preoccupied.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.
— Alberto Manguel
In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.
— Joseph Joubert
Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer's voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
I have a lot of ambition.
— Katy Perry
I'm a latecomer to popular TV. This is rather new to me, being in a sitcom. It's been an ambition of mine.
— Ian McKellen
Given courage and ability and a favorable set of circumstances, there is no greater way to [acquire] influence than to be free of personal ambition.
— Lorena A. Hickok
You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success.
— Winston Churchill
The mere ambition to write a poem is enough to kill it.
— Henri Michaux
When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.
— Pete Hamill
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine
— Elvis Presley
The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.
— Criss Jami
As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.
— James Hilton
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
He never gave up his search for the Door into Summer.
— Robert A. Heinlein
It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I have a few personal ambitions for the band.
— John Deacon
My one ambition is to play a hero.
— Sessue Hayakawa
Lagos was built from blood and sweat, and raw ambition. Abuja was designed as a playground for the rich.
— A. Igoni Barrett
You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions.
— Peter MacKay
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without winds.
— Salvador Dali
A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.
— Alain De Botton
Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.
— Tupac Shakur
Daring a greater life is a divine act.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Ambition had a price, and that price was friendship.
— Eoin Colfer
You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.
— Kit Williams
Tis a common proof That lowliness is young ambition's ladder - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
— Liaquat Ahamed
I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.
— Fiona Apple
My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Every man has an ambition. Let it be a good one. Just drive toward it with enthusiasm.
— Debasish Mridha
Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.
— Samuel R. Delany
The very substance of ambition is merely the shadow of a dream.
— William Shakespeare