1,853 Quotes About Ambition

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.

With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people.

Like most business people, I want every aspect of my business to be perfect. I know that this goal is unachievable, but it is nevertheless what I strive to achieve .

This proposal from the Bank does not suggest a strong ambition to re-direct financing away from existing fossil fuel patterns, or to deliver sustainable energy to the two billion people currently without.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

Ambition and hatred are enough to bring Iraq and al Qaeda together

Men drunk with ambition and power do not ground their weapons, nor stop to recognise the fellow-humanity of those they are about to slay. Not here - not now.

I never gave a thought to running, ... Not even in my heart of hearts do I have an ambition to do that.