1,853 Quotes About Ambition

Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies

There is a real danger that the competitive disadvantage caused by this measure will frustrate the government's ambition of making the U.K. the best place to trade electronically by 2002.

The research shows that our teenagers are full of ambition and really keen to have a career that offers good prospects,

In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of envy can lead to emulation and ambition and have positive consequences.

In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies to liberty; and it is certain, that this steady conduct of theirs must have been founded on fixed reasons of interest and ambition. Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds, on which it is commonly founded; and, by an infallible connexion, which prevails among all kinds of liberty, this privilege can never be enjoyed, at least has never yet been enjoyed, but in a free government.

Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

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

If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.