Ambition

Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.

- Eydie Gorme Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka.

- Aleister Crowley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

My ambition is to just see kids coming here and having fun. I always said that the academy and the kids coming through is not about elitism. It is about boys and girls age eight to 15 coming down, having fun and enjoying themselves.

- David Beckham Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is hard to see where progress can be achieved in Hong Kong if the talks continue in this direction. The level of ambition, if anything, is going backwards.

- Peter Mandelson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I never gave a thought to running, ... Not even in my heart of hearts do I have an ambition to do that.

- Gregory Peck Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

- Helen Adams Keller Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

- Elvis Presley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.

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

A slave has but one master the ambitious man has as many masters as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortune.

- Jean de la Bruyere Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

- Robert Browning Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.

- Shane Warne Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

- Anthony Trollope Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.

- Mason Cooley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it.

- Claire Bloom Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

- Bob Marley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.

- Billie Burke Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

- Emile Cioran Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Once we begin to want, we fall under the jurisdiction of the Devil. It is a great force, and a great fortune, to be able to live without any ambition whatever. I aspire to it, but the very fact of so aspiring still participates in ambition.

- Emile Cioran Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

- Barack Obama Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

- Samuel Johnson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

He was agonizingly long, ... but don't make the mistake thinking that is a fatal error. I've known him as a governor for a long time and I think he's extremely talented. He has the strength of being able to focus. He has a single ambition, and he has always had this ambition, and it is to someday be president of the United States.

- Mario Cuomo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Is he running purely because of personal ambition, or is he the head of a movement ... We remember the heads of movements.

- Larry Sabato Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

- Georges Bizet Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Tis plain that there is not in nature a point of stability to be found everything either ascends or declines. When wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home, and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.

- Sir Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

This is no time for 'take it or leave it' attitudes or proposals, but the moment to combine flexibility with ambition, and political courage and resolve, so that we can make progress.

- Pascal Lamy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes