1,853 Quotes About Ambition

If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.

I have seen the women in Somalia receive those water bottles where the alternative for them is to walk for two miles to get polluted water and even run the risk of being raped. These are the realities that we have to bring into the halls of the United Nations. So we may ask for a higher degree of ambition in the document. The realities are there, and I think we will have to deal with those realities.

The first part was getting all of the freshmen and sophomores out this year and then keeping them out. For whatever reason, we've had the glue that has been keeping them together. We're trying to capitalize on that energy and ambition and they're learning a lot.

The truth is also imprisoned because of the personal ambition and interests of a few. This truth should be set free now.

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of human condition. No, they proclaimed morality was an imperative of all life, a natural law that was neither the brutal acts of beasts nor the lofty ambitions of humanity, but something other, something unassailable

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.

Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

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.