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I'm not somebody with over-weening ambition.
— Jeremy Corbyn
You will get what you wish for.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.
— Abba Eban
The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.
— Nicole Krauss
Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave.
— Henry David Thoreau
If you cannot do great things in life, make sure you do the small things in a great way.
— Habeeb Akande
My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.
— Rafe Spall
Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.
— John Keats
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
Relax and be free. You don't have to prove anything.
— Marty Rubin
Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
— Daley Thompson
both were writers of high ambition, with
— Gyles Brandreth
He who burns with ambition to become aedile, tribune, praetor, consul, dictator, cries out that he loves his country and he loves only himself.
— John Ralston Saul
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
Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?
— Eric Maisel
The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
run. He is spoilt and his ambition is the work of an idle and over-reaching mother.
— Kiran Nagarkar
I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.
— Jean-Francois Cope
Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative, of imagination.
— Dorothy Dunnett
Everyone - black as well as white - thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land.
— Stephen King
Men looked at their gods and their rituals and saw that both were filled with that most terrible of all equations: fear over ambition.
— Frank Herbert
The visions of a healthy brain,
Give us pleasure over and again;
For this home was done,
From the daytime dreams of one. — Omar Kiam
Give us pleasure over and again;
For this home was done,
From the daytime dreams of one. — Omar Kiam
So much of love is imagination -- its over-activity, its over-ambition, its over-the-top faith.
— Gerry LaFemina
You are capable of anything. Dream great dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and the army tomorrow.
— Yakubu Gowon
A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.
— John Adams
True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.
— Ryan Holiday
Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.
— Anatoli Boukreev
Men of great ambition have sought happiness . . . and have found fame.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
— Abraham Lincoln
I always sang and I always wrote ... it's just having that ambition. You really can't let go of your dreams.
— Mariah Carey
Always stay one step a head, unless you're already there
— Benny Bellamacina
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
The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
If our mission is grand & our vision is glorious, we need great values that match our ambition or else, we toil in vain...
— Assegid Habtewold
I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels.
— William Shakespeare
The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.
— Fernando Torres
I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
— Idris Elba
You will see true character after a defeated ambition
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Anybody with any ambition at all, or intelligence, has left Canada and is now living in New York.
— Tucker Carlson
The nature of ambition is that it requires casualties.
— Michael Dobbs
Running and science draw on similar traits - stamina, ambition, patience, and the ability to overcome limits.
— Wolfgang Ketterle
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without winds.
— Salvador Dali
Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity
— Martin Luther
Don't allow ambition to rob you of destiny.
— Vonae Deyshawn