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Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

Quotes by Philip Massinger

When you talk about the ambition to get more girls to play at a younger age, they are inspired by watching Toni Duggan and Steph Houghton playing, either live or by watching it on television.

Quotes by Phil Neville

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.

Quotes by Petrarch

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

Quotes by Peter Ustinov

My ambition in the cinema, since I came across it, was to play Chance... I have realized that ambition, and so I have no more.

Quotes by Peter Sellers

I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct.

Quotes by Peter Morgan

Britain lacks that fundamental belief that anyone can make it. What we need is a British dream. Let's give young people the courage and ambition to go for it.

Quotes by Peter Jones

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

Quotes by Peter Carey

When I was 18 or 19, my one ambition was to make a film.

Quotes by Peter Brook

What would rock and roll be without ambition, craziness, danger, and fun?

Quotes by Pete Wentz

When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either.

Quotes by Peter Ackroyd

It was always my ambition to be on the cover of a free gay magazine.

Quotes by Pete Doherty

When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.

Quotes by Pete Hamill

I love what I do, and I'm not doing anything either for money or for the sake of some unfulfilled ambition.

Quotes by Persis Khambatta

I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.

Quotes by Penelope Ann Miller

My ambition is to be happy.

Quotes by Penelope Cruz

My stupid ambition is to make a film that's not like any other - one that has its own kind of logic and hooks viewers without making them think too much. It's a film I'd love to see, one in which after 10 minutes the audience isn't able to predict the whole thing.

Quotes by Pawel Pawlikowski

My ambition is to not have to work any more. In 10 years I want to stop, and I want to be living with my family, taking care of my house. I want to be a housewife.

Quotes by Paz Vega

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

Quotes by Paul Ryan

I never wanted to be an actress. I didn't have any ambition in that area.

Quotes by Pattie Boyd

I don't think I focused on the financial part of it, but definitely, my ambition is to be great, and that always meant that the sky was the limit for what I was hoping to do.

Quotes by Patty Jenkins

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

Quotes by Pat Riley

All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power.

Quotes by Park Geun-hye

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.

Oscar Wilde

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Oscar Wilde

My ambition is to win some trophies. That's why I am playing football.

Quotes by Olivier Giroud

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.

Quotes by Oliver Herford

I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.

Quotes by Octavia E. Butler

Our ambition is to win every game regardless of the opponent.

Quotes by Nuno Espirito Santo

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

Quotes by Noah Webster

I have a Stratocaster, which is part of my long, doomed ambition to become Jimi Hendrix.

Quotes by Nish Kumar

When doing family entertainment, you don't actually worry about kids. You know what you can't do. But in terms of sensibility and sophistication and wit and ambition, aim for your own taste level, and kids will - if they're interested in the subject matter - be glad that you did.

Quotes by Nina Jacobson

The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.

Quotes by Nicole Krauss

My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.

Quotes by Neil Kinnock

There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second category, that's all.

Quotes by Neil Kinnock

Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.

Quotes by Nawazuddin Siddiqui

I'm supporting the School for Creative Startups because the project's ambition - to boost innovation and the culture of entrepreneurship - is something I feel strongly about.

Quotes by Natalie Massenet

I don't think that ambition should not be in the dictionary of entrepreneurs. But our ambition should be realistic. You have to realise that you can't do everything.

Quotes by Mukesh Ambani

I knew I wanted to be an actor but didn't know how to go about it. That's why my ambition, initially, was not to play a lead role in a Bollywood film.

Quotes by Mithila Palkar

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

Quotes by Mitch Daniels

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Quotes by Milan Kundera

I don't have that same ambition I had when I was younger.

Quotes by Mike Tice

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

Quotes by Mike Krzyzewski

We've set this forever ambition to make WeWork the best place.

Quotes by Miguel McKelvey

Team is all about vision, goal and ambition... It's about wanting to be the best you can be as a group.

Quotes by Mickey Arthur

I have no real ambition or strategy. If this was all to finish, it's totally fine. There's a lot more to do out there than put on silly frocks and shout for a living. I could always go back to, 'Would you like soup with that?'

Quotes by Michelle Gomez

You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.

Quotes by Michel Onfray

I never had a driving ambition to be a star.

Quotes by Michael Learned

You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.

Quotes by Michael Lewis

To say directing was a long-stewing ambition doesn't cover it. If you cut me open, you'd see it.

Quotes by Michael Keaton

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

Quotes by Michael Korda

Cable is a dynamic and highly innovative industry, providing cutting edge services and content that Americans love. The broadband platform the industry has deployed is a critical part of the infrastructure needed to realize our national ambition to be a great nation in the Information Age.

Quotes by Michael K. Powell

There's something very beautiful and compelling about someone who has ambition and someone who knows what they want, but it can get a little frustrating at times, so I understand that. I have sympathy for that.

Quotes by Michael Ealy

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

Quotes by Mercy Otis Warren

I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.

Quotes by Meg Tilly

It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.

Quotes by Matthew Weiner

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

Quotes by Mason Cooley

I have always been driven by the ambition to solve every problem I face, whether as a scientist, engineer or entrepreneur.

Quotes by Martin Winterkorn

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

Quotes by Marquis de Sade

America was born in outrageous ambition, so bold as to be improbable. The deprived, the oppressed, the powerless from all over the globe came here with little more than the desire to realize themselves.

Quotes by Mario Cuomo

I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.

Quotes by Margaret Heffernan

I want to score more goals; the main ambition is goals.

Quotes by Marcus Rashford

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Marcus Aurelius

It would have been naive to believe that it's an easy job to become the undisputed No. 1 at Barcelona, but that's my target, and it's something I will tackle with all my ambition.

Quotes by Marc-Andre ter Stegen

Yes, I love the glamour industry. I love the work that I've done so far. But it's not as if I have this biting ambition to be at the top.

Quotes by Malaika Arora Khan

It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.

Quotes by Majandra Delfino

The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.

Quotes by Maggie Rowe

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

Quotes by Lynn Davies

Acting is a big ambition, but I still have a professional wrestling world to conquer.

Quotes by Luke Harper

I had immense ambition to become a really valuable actress.

Quotes by Luise Rainer

I remember once Robert Taylor invited me to lunch. I asked him, 'What is your ambition?' He said, 'I want to have 10 very good suits.'

Quotes by Luise Rainer

He has ambition and hunger, but I would not say Messi is the only piece of art at Barca.

Quotes by Luis Enrique

Dunga has a very aggressive style with a good deal of desire and ambition to win. He wants that to resonate throughout his team.

Quotes by Lucas Moura

The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves above their proper sphere, the greater the danger that they will fall.

Quotes by Louis XIV

I have no ambition to be a technical director or TV pundit.

Quotes by Louis van Gaal

It has been an honor to manage such a magnificent club as Manchester United FC, and in doing so, I have fulfilled a long-held ambition.

Quotes by Louis van Gaal

It is not wealth, it is not station, it is not social standing and ambition which can make us worthy of the Jewish name, of the Jewish heritage. To be worthy of them, we must live up to and with them. We must regard ourselves their custodians.

Quotes by Louis D. Brandeis

I don't believe in muckin' about and hiding ambition.

Quotes by Leo Sayer

My only ambition was to get to 50, and not regret not having had a crack at being a comic.

Quotes by Lee Mack

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

Quotes by Lawrence Welk

Someone like Boris Johnson is reluctant to answer questions about ambition because then the story becomes all about his ambition. Sure, he's got ambition - that's no secret at all. But also, he's very strongly motivated to try to get the kind of Brexit he believes in.

Quotes by Laura Kuenssberg

There is a big divergence between views on a variety of policy issues from fiscal stimulus to financial regulation. It's my hope and my ambition for the economics profession that as we advance our knowledge, that those discussions will narrow in their focus, and that it will help to have more prudent policy-making down the road.

Quotes by Lars Peter Hansen

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Quotes by Lao Tzu

My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.

Quotes by Lajos Kossuth

I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.

Quotes by Lajos Kossuth

I guess my ambition is simply to keep doing what I'm doing for as long as I can.

Quotes by Kristan Higgins

Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.

Quotes by Kimi Raikkonen

It was an easy choice to return with Lotus Renault GP as I have been impressed by the scope of the team's ambition.

Quotes by Kimi Raikkonen

I see myself as having fulfilled a lot of my ambition. All the things I dreamed of achieving, I've achieved for the most part.

Quotes by Kerry James Marshall

Ambition never comes to an end.

Quotes by Kenneth Kaunda

I had this vague notion that one day I might be editor of 'Vogue China.' It was a bizarre ambition, as I didn't speak a word of Chinese. There were flaws in my plan, admittedly.

Quotes by Katie McGrath

So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.

Quotes by Katey Sagal

To have played for England was my ultimate ambition, and to do so at four World Cups and represent Team GB at a home Olympics was beyond the wildest dreams I had when first starting out.

Quotes by Karen Carney

My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

Quotes by Juliette Binoche

The ambition and focus that propel you to success can also be your downfall.

Quotes by Judy Smith

It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.

Quotes by Joseph Story

Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales.

Quotes by Joseph Jacobs

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.

Joseph Conrad

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.

Quotes by Jon Landau

Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.

Quotes by John Strachan

Time is the only critic without ambition.

John Steinbeck

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