Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability
The man who seeks one thing in life and but one, May hope to achieve it before life is done; But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows, A harvest of barren regrets.
For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.
My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.
Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.
The person who is free of sexuality, whose sexuality has become a transformed phenomenon, is also free of money, is also free of ambition, is also free of the desire to be famous. Immediately all these things disappear from his life. The moment sex energy starts rising upwards, the moment sex energy starts becoming love, prayer, meditation, then all lower manifestations disappear.
Buddha introduced the idea that young people should become sannyasins. Then it is something significant. When a young person goes beyond sex, when a young person goes beyond desires, when a young person goes beyond greed, ambition, the longing to be powerful, the ambition to be famous, then it is something tremendously meaningful, significant.
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases.
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.
I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.
Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.
Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!
But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.
As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.
What is ambition but desire of greatness? And what is greatness but extent of power?
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