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Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

Quotes by Edward Dahlberg

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Quotes by Edmund Burke

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

Quotes by Edmund Hillary

I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.

Quotes by Edith Pearlman

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

Quotes by Eden Phillpotts

If you have got a dream and you've got ambition, then go for it. You know, unless you try, you'll never know.

Quotes by Eddie the Eagle

It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.

Quotes by Doris Day

Mel is nuts. He puts on a suit and a tie and acts like a normal person so people think he's okay. He's definitely out in left field. He's got the ambition of a boy.

Quotes by Dom DeLuise

Britain rightly sees herself as a global good citizen, but she must reconcile ambition with power, ends with means - shedding utopian idealism in favour of a more rugged internationalism, putting the national interest first, not last.

Quotes by Dominic Raab

My main ambition is to be of use to my country and my people.

Quotes by Dmitry Medvedev

I see my face in the mirror, and I said, 'No, my ambition is not to be an actor.'

Quotes by Dino De Laurentiis

For Euro 2016, we must remain humble, but we have the ambition to go as far as possible.

Quotes by Didier Deschamps

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and settled down to a life of reading.

Quotes by Diane Setterfield

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

Quotes by Derek Jarman

My ambition is peace and perfection.

Quotes by DeForest Kelley

My biggest ambition when I was younger was to appear on stage at what was then Nimrod, which is the theatre where my father used to take me on Sunday afternoons to see matinees. The most extraordinary things used to occur on that stage.

Quotes by David Wenham

It's not my ambition to direct lots of films. I think if I direct one film in my whole life, why rush it?

Quotes by David Thewlis

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

Quotes by David Morrissey

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

Quotes by David Lee Roth

TV has a three storyline structure, but 'The Killing' takes on that structure with such ambition.

Quotes by David Hewson

My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream.

Quotes by David Hasselhoff

If ambition is the desire to be the best at what you do, then I'm guilty.

Quotes by Dave Checketts

If you have enough ambition, you can create talent!

Quotes by Darcey Bussell

I had no ambition to become an actor at all.

Quotes by Danny Huston

For a long time, I didn't think I wanted to live in the Ozarks or write about the region. It seemed to be a sure recipe for obscurity, and to be obscure was not my conscious ambition.

Quotes by Daniel Woodrell

My ambition is we want artists to be able to afford to create the music they want to create, and if it takes them five years to sit down and make the album they want to make, they should be able to afford that. That's my goal.

Quotes by Daniel Ek

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

Quotes by Daniel Boone

As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.

Quotes by Dana Hussein

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

Quotes by Daley Thompson

I can't sing. Definitely no ambition in that area.

Quotes by Corin Nemec

When you have ambition, then it's never enough to win.

Quotes by Clarence Seedorf

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

Quotes by Claire Bloom

I have lots of ambition!

Quotes by Chuck Berry

There's a lack of ambition in politics in terms of what we expect from the government, what it means to have a state.

Quotes by Christine and the Queens

Well, when I was at Leeds it was the best and worst time of my career, because when I was a kid it was my ambition to play for Middlesbrough, where I was born, and my dream to play for Leeds, and everyone said I couldn't have two teams.

Quotes by Chris Kamara

If I had one singular galvanizing ambition in life, I would try to reverse engineer toward it, but I don't.

Quotes by Chelsea Clinton

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Quotes by Charles Kennedy

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

When I left Facebook, I left an enormous amount of equity on the table. I thought, 'I don't want to be a slave to money. I want to be a slave to something bigger: an ambition, a goal.'

Quotes by Chamath Palihapitiya

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

Quotes by Cesare Pavese

In Britain, it's almost as if we're ashamed of having ambition and drive.

Quotes by Cat Deeley

Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.

Quotes by Carmen Kass

I would like to play for a club who I feel have true ambition.

Quotes by Carlos Tevez

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Quotes by Carl Sagan

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Quotes by Carl von Clausewitz

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

Quotes by Bryant H. McGill

Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.

Quotes by Bruce Forsyth

Raise your ambition beyond where you're capable of now. There's nothing about my hometown that said I'd be working with Fortune 50 CEO's, Olympians, at the highest level.

Quotes by Brendon Burchard

Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.

Quotes by Brenda Blethyn

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Quotes by Bono

I was utterly without worldly ambition because I knew that all that was needed for a rich, full life was a few shillings a week with which to buy SF magazines and beer.

Quotes by Bob Shaw

When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll... something that acknowledged my ambition.

Quotes by Billy Idol

I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive.

Quotes by Bill Murray

Our ambition is to build a globally competitive and futuristic transportation system in India that will support and accelerate a nation on the move.

Quotes by Bhavish Aggarwal

Capote is one of those people who represents something larger than himself. I think that his ambition, his kind of success, and the downfall that followed are very contemporary.

Quotes by Bennett Miller

I feel like what I'm after is not easy for me to find, and to want it to be easy... it would be absurd for me to have that ambition.

Quotes by Bennett Miller

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

I don't have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It's not about that for me.

Quotes by Ben Whishaw

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.

Quotes by Ben Jonson

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

Quotes by Ben Elton

Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.

Quotes by Bear Grylls

Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.

Quotes by Beau Willimon

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Quotes by Baruch Spinoza

When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write a great novel.

Quotes by Barry Barish

The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.

Quotes by Barney Frank

Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.

Quotes by Ban Ki-moon

City are a club with a lot of ambition, and they are one of the best teams in Europe.

Quotes by Aymeric Laporte

With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people.

Quotes by Azim Premji

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

Quotes by Aslan Maskhadov

I go through stages. Randomly, I'll be attracted to a crazy rocker with tattoos. And I find that I'm extremely attracted to ambition and wit.

Quotes by Ashley Greene

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.

Quotes by Arthur Koestler

Once I started getting paid to be a writer and not having lots of other gross responsibilities, like making the puzzle or whatever, then my ambition changed, and I thought, 'Now I want to be a good writer.' And that became my ambition.

Quotes by Ariel Levy

Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.

Quotes by Archie Panjabi

Honestly, I always had the silent ambition of being a director.

Quotes by Arbaaz Khan

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

Quotes by Anthony Trollope

Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.

Quotes by Annette Funicello

An actor should always let humility outweigh ambition.

Quotes by Anna Kendrick

Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.

Quotes by Anna Kendrick

My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.

Quotes by Anjelica Huston

My ambition was just to be able to play guitar.

Quotes by Angus Young

PSG's ambition of the Champions League is also mine. I know they have a great project. I want to participate in this project and reach their objective of winning the Champions League.

Quotes by Angel Di Maria

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.

Quotes by Angela Carter

I do think that whatever ambition I may have had natively was amplified by my father's clear valuing of it. I knew that was what my dad really cared about.

Quotes by Angela Duckworth

When I was at Paisley Grammar we were equipped to compete with the private-school kids - and encouraged to do so. The sky was the limit, provided we had ability, ambition and a capacity for hard work.

Quotes by Andrew Neil

When I started making films, it was never that I had this great ambition to only do gay-themed material.

Quotes by Andrew Haigh

In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.

Quotes by Andrea Bocelli

I've never told anyone, but my ambition is to become the leading all-time scorer of free kicks in Serie A.

Quotes by Andrea Pirlo

My main ambition as a teenager was to somehow resurrect the dark-minded writer Franz Kafka and become his girlfriend.

Quotes by Amy Gerstler

My ambition from day one in this sport has been to become a world superstar.

Quotes by Amir Khan

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.

Quotes by Alva Myrdal

I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.

Quotes by Ally Sheedy

If you don't have ambition, you shouldn't be alive.

Quotes by Aliko Dangote

My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.

Quotes by Alexandra Roach

To make my entire career at Lyon doesn't bother me as long as they continue to have the development and ambition to have a competitive team, even if we're not certain to win the Champions League.

Quotes by Alexandre Lacazette

In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious tragedy.

Quotes by Alexandra Fuller

My long-term ambition is to be an agent of change.

Quotes by Alexander Nix

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

Quotes by Alexander Pope

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

Quotes by Alexander Hamilton

I would like to win the Ballon d'Or for women. But every top professional should have that ambition.

Quotes by Alex Morgan

Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.

Quotes by Alex Flinn

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