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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

Every piece of art has a buyer. Only Time decides when the right buyer will see it. — Suzy Kassem

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

Be something! That's the inscription written over the gates of hell. — Marty Rubin

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. — Sallust

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

Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me. — Alex Kapranos

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

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

I never underestimated myself. And I never saw anything wrong with ambition. — Angela Merkel

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

It has always been an ambition of mine to serve as an object lesson for others. — Patricia Briggs

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

He shed a lake of blood and murdered a king for a cold, lonely throne. — Jayne Castel

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