Ambition quotes

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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.

- Ben Jonson

My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.

- Van Morrison

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

- Wilfred Owen

My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.

- Graham Norton

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

- Lynn Davies

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

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

- Rebecca Miller

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.

- Theophrastus

My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.

- Gene Tunney

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

- Claire Bloom

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

- James Madison

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

- Oliver Herford

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

- Emile M. Cioran

I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.

- Joe DiMaggio

Ambition never comes to an end.

- Kenneth Kaunda

If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.

- Whitfield Diffie

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

- John McCarthy

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

- Edmund Burke

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

- Lao Tzu