Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

Sallust
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Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.

Frank Tyger
1,999
I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play. -Albert Einstein
357

My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special.

Sugar Ray Leonard
241

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

Michael Korda
205
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
197

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Walter Savage Landor
188

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

William Makepeace Thackeray
185
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust. -John Webster
170

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

Thomas Otway
165

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

Walter Savage Landor
111
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. -Arthur Christopher Benson
99

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

Eden Phillpotts
53

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Michel de Montaigne
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Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition. -Terry Josephson
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Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Elvis Presley
0

My ambition is to be happy.

Penelope Cruz
0
Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky. -African American Proverb
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Actually, it is not ambition, it is more serving the people and dedicating your life to them.

Fernando Poe, Jr.
0

My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.

Ilie Nastase
0
As far back as I can remember, I've had only one real ambition: to be an actress. -Piper Laurie
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Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

James M. Barrie
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

Adam Ant
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We had ambition to burn. -Jon Landau
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The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.

William Feather
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Now I have my new ambition to fly on my 100th birthday.

Herbert Sloane
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All sporting ambition considered, there should always be a relationship to Germany. -Oliver Bierhoff
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What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.

Oliver Herford
0

Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.

Ed Norton
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It's not going to be contemptuous of wealth and ambition. -Robert Luketic
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