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My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.
— Graham Roberts
If I wish to be well in my mind, then I must write, and there is no cure for my ambition, and thank the Lord for that.
— Sally O'Reilly
Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act.
— Damien Echols
There are disappointments in all men's lives, even those who have achieved their ambition, and there are compensations.
— John Christopher
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight
— Elvis Presley
There is nothing in the world so enticing as that which you have been told you may not have.
— Marie Brennan
My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life.
— Rodman Philbrick
There are a lot of people who go to Washington or go to their state houses with a personal ambition in mind.
— Mitt Romney
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ambition was an itch in Mary's show, a maggot in her guts.
— Emma Donoghue
I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.
— Emmanuelle Beart
Comfort kills ambition. Get uncomfortable and get used to it in your pursuit of your goals and dreams.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Ignite the fire in thy soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We have these ambitions that are very hard to accomplish because life puts us in our place. We have this battle with mediocrity.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
— Taylor Caldwell
If I had one singular galvanizing ambition in life, I would try to reverse engineer toward it, but I don't.
— Chelsea Clinton
On ambition, goal setting and competition - it doesn't matter if you lose, but you can't win if you don't play the game.
— Aaron Lauritsen
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
When you've accomplished a certain amount in your career, you're not so focused on your ambitions.
— Michael Douglas
In the same way Marxism robs workers of ambition, Feminism robs men and women of love.
— Stefan Molyneux
In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is
— Robert Herrick
Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp.
— Jeff MacNelly
No man's ambitions (have) a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice.
— John Peter Altgeld
Anybody with any ambition at all, or intelligence, has left Canada and is now living in New York.
— Tucker Carlson
Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.
— Donald Miller
My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.
— Gene Tunney
I'd find someone else. No distractions. Men get in the way of ambition. Plus, they laugh at you when you fail
— Rose Pressey
I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.
— Mason Cooley
His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.
— John McCarthy
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
— Philip Massinger
This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.
— James Thurber
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
— Baltasar Gracian
In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.
— Andrea Bocelli
You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context.
— Jose Mourinho
Then the voice in your head silently tells you to take your foot off your throat because just getting along shouldn't be an ambition.
— Claudia Rankine
A day in a man's life is constructed according to whether he accepts or rejects flashes of inspiration.
— Eiji Yoshikawa
Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
— Bryant H. McGill
This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.
— Winston Churchill
Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
— Michel De Montaigne
As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.
— Benjamin Disraeli
My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.
— David Lee Roth
Embrace the beauty of good moment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The hidden hand of ambition is in the rewards of the determined.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Most people try to avoid cliches. It's my ambition in life to try to get 'em right!
— Philip Schultz
A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above ambition, the other below it.
— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Who doth ambition shun And loves to lie in the sun, Seeking the food he eats And pleased with what he gets,
— T.H. White
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
— A. C. Benson
The belief in their actions can mend constellations. The ambition in their thirst for knowledge can both create and destroy.
— F.K. Preston
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
— Jonas Salk
Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Any city has to give some thought to its ambition and brand in order to set sustainability goals.
— Ginni Rometty
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
To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe unless we have ambition to accomplish things and to do things that we amount to but very little in the battle of life.
— Heber J. Grant
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
Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.
— P.D. James
Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.
— Napoleon Hill
My main ambitions, really, are in the theatre.
— Romola Garai
I love living in the ghetto!" #PoorMindSet
— Habeeb Akande
Generally speaking, we are all happier when we are still striving for achievement than when the prize is in our hands.
— Margot Fonteyn
People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.
— James Wolcott
New York was populated by the ambitious. It was often the only thing that everyone here had in common. Ambition
— Hanya Yanagihara
Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?
— Sidney Sheldon
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Those whose tastes run to personal power [can] never be trusted to act save in the pursuit of their own ambition.
— Jack McDevitt
Giving in to the forces of low ambition would be an act of climate appeasement. This is our Munich moment.
— Chris Huhne
Know your limitations and be content with them. Too much ambition results in promotion to a job you can't do.
— Ricky Gervais
I resolve to do my very best in everything.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In Washington, the venerable were often vulnerable.
— John Taliaferro
