Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil with all our strength to obtain them, since we may if we wish.

Ian Mckellen

I'm a latecomer to popular TV. This is rather new to me, being in a sitcom. It's been an ambition of mine.

Hugh Grant

My grandmother was utterly convinced I'd wind up as the Archbishop of Canterbury. And, to be honest, I've never entirely ruled it out.

Horace

Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

Gene Tunney

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

Garry Wills

Stevenson had noble ideas--as did the young Franklin for that matter. But Stevenson felt that the way to implement them was to present himself as a thoughtful idealist and wait for the world to flock to him. He considered it below him, or wrong, to scramble out among the people and ask them what they wanted. Roosevelt grappled voters to him. Stevenson shied off from them. Some thought him too pure to desire power, though he showed ambition when it mattered.

Frank Sinatra

I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.

George Eliot

But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of carrying out a resolve when we secretly long that it may turn out to be unnecessary. In such states of mind the most incredulous person has a private leaning towards miracle: impossible to conceive how our wish could be fulfilled, still - very wonderful things have happened!

Fergus Henderson

Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

Fay Weldon

Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.

Fanny Burney

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

Francis Parkman

The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling for himself, to gather competence or wealth. The expansion of New France was the achievement of a gigantic ambition striving to grasp a continent. It was a vain attempt.

Francesco Guicciardini

I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.

Francesco Guicciardini

Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.

Tony Perez

If he has no ambition and just wants to be in the big leagues and play . . . ... You have to have a goal and follow it.

Rafael Benitez

I felt the same way going into this year's tournament as I did a year ago. And I'm as hungry now to win more trophies as I was before. It's my ambition to win many competitions with the club. I'm not satisfied with only winning the Champions League once. We want to repeat our success.

Jean-Luc Godard

What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

Jim Henson

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

Jerome K. Jerome

Ambition is only vanity ennobled.

Jennifer Lawrence

I do have big ambitions, but I think we all do. I just want to keep working hard and being happy.

William Shakespeare

Farewell the tranquil mind; farewell content!Farewell the plumed troop and the big warsThat make ambition virtue!

Roger McGough

Better is a big ambition. Some people don't want that ambition as a writer. Some people seem to want to unsettle the reader. I don't know.

Robert Kiyosaki

Anyone can be an entrepreneur. All it takes is a little drive and ambition.

We are still assessing the full impact of the damage we have inflicted. However, it is already clear we have inflicted substantial damage on Saddam's chemical and biological war machine and set back his ambition to threaten his neighbors,

The title has been our ambition since day one and now we have to go out and clinch it. Then I will celebrate properly.

Jeremy Northam

I've never had an ambition to make that a part of my professional or personal life - I've done an awful lot of it, mainly in the States.

Rob Lowe

Things that I consider bad qualities, I always try and figure out where they are coming from. I don't consider ambition to be a bad one. It's served me very well in my life. Very well.

Celso Amorim

The worst possible scenario would be to lower the ambition and try to do something on the cheap side. If you don't have an appropriate result now, we'll have to wait another 20 years to have real reform in agriculture.

Glenn Hoddle

We have to draw a line under the game. We have got 16 games to go and we have to concentrate on what was always our main ambition this season, getting promoted.

Celso Amorim

We will not lower the level of ambition of the round. If necessary we may lower the level of expectation for Hong Kong,

Sergio Marchionne

We attribute to this car a great part of our ambition and our efforts to win new customers,

John Milton

To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heav'n

Tom DeLay was brought down by the arrogance and political ambition of the political money machine he helped to build.