Ambition

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us and true progress is to know more, and Be more, and to do more.

- John Lubbock Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Too low they build who build beneath the stars.

- Edward Young Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Dombey and Son had often dealt in hides, but never in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and boarding-schools and books. Mr. Dombey would have reasoned That a matrimonial alliance with himself must, in the nature of things, be gratifying and honourable to any woman of common sense. That the hope of giving birth to a new partner in such a house, could not fail to awaken a glorious and stirring ambition in the breast of the least ambitious of her sex.

- Charles Dickens Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry-great. To have hopes, dreams-great.

- Johnny Depp Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.

- Alistair Cooke Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming.

- Israel Zangwill Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

- Arthur Koestler Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

- Quintilian Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

America is Gods Crucible, the greatest Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming ... God is making the American.

- Israel Zangwill Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

- Dan Rather Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

- Friedrich Nietzsche Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Nothing is so commonplace as to wish to be remarkable.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Children, you must remember something. A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

- Pearl Mae Bailey Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I pledge you - I pledge myself - to a new deal for the American people.

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.

- Rob Morrow Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The Devil beget darkness darkness beget ignorance ignorance beget error and his brethren error beget free-will and presumption free-will beget works works beget forgetfulness of God forgetfulness beget transgression transgression beget superstition superstition beget satisfaction satisfaction beget the mass-offering the mass-offering beget the priest the priest beget unbelief unbelief beget hypocrisy hypocrisy beget traffic in offerings for gain traffic in offerings for gain beget Purgatory Purgatory beget the annual solemn vigils the annual vigils beget church-livings church-livings beget avarice avarice beget swelling superfluity swelling superfluity beget fulness fulness beget rage rage beget license license beget empire and domination domination beget pomp pomp beget ambition ambition beget simony simony beget the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity.

- Martin Luther Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Anyone who runs for President is certainly adequately endowed with both ambition and ego. Sometimes, there are factors that occur in our lives, unanticipated factors, that tend to reduce the level of ego.

- Jimmy Carter Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There is not a sufficient level of convergence among members on the level of ambition in the key areas of the negotiations, ... If we try this jump and miss it, we might lose what has been achieved already.

- Pascal Lamy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

- Pearl Bailey Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

- Margot Tennant Asquith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

- William Shakespeare Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, And forgets the obligations of gratitude.

- Walter Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I charge thee, fling away ambition By that sin fell the angels.

- William Shakespeare Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

- Petrarch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes