All Quotes

Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.
‐‐ Jeremy Clarkson

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
‐‐ Shakti Gawain

Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.
‐‐ Natalie Massenet

Ambition is not a vice of little people.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne

Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.
‐‐ Francesco Guicciardini

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
‐‐ Bryant H. McGill

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
‐‐ Robert Browning

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
‐‐ Eleanor Roosevelt

Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
‐‐ Alex Kapranos

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
‐‐ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
‐‐ Baruch Spinoza

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
‐‐ Bill Bradley

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
‐‐ James M. Barrie

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.
‐‐ James Cook

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.
‐‐ Ben Jonson

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
‐‐ James Madison

Ambition never comes to an end.
‐‐ Kenneth Kaunda

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte

Ambition, of course, is the politician's currency.
‐‐ George Packer

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
‐‐ A. C. Benson

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.
‐‐ Guy Kawasaki

Ambitious of vision and swooping of camera, 'I, Frankenstein' is no 'I, Robot,' let alone 'I, Claudius,' but it's definitely watchable on a cold Jan. evening or, a few months from now, on your I, Pad.
‐‐ Richard Corliss

Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world.
‐‐ Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
‐‐ Erica Jong

Amboyna seems to present the most favorable opening. Fifty thousand souls are there perishing without the means of life, and the situation of the island is such that a mission there established might, with the blessing of God, be extended to the neighboring islands in those seas.
‐‐ Adoniram Judson

'Ambulatory' is my favorite word to use because it never gets a laugh.
‐‐ Andy Kindler

AMC has a track record for finding actors who have been working actors but not names yet and casting them.
‐‐ Mireille Enos

Amelia shows that it's not what happens in life that counts, but rather how you frame it, how you talk about it.
‐‐ Marissa Moss

Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.
‐‐ Gary Busey

Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.
‐‐ Ben Nelson

Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly they make minor adjustments to the bigger bill.
‐‐ Matt Taibbi

'America 24/7' will be a landmark series in documentary photography and the watershed event of the new digital photography age.
‐‐ Rick Smolan

America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.
‐‐ Nick Rahall

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
‐‐ Herbert Hoover

America allows us to be able to dream, then gives us the ability to achieve those dreams.
‐‐ Rick Mears

America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
‐‐ Randi Weingarten

America always recovers.
‐‐ John Catsimatidis

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
‐‐ Barack Obama

America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by radical ideologues that breed hatred, oppression, and violence against all of their declared enemies.
‐‐ Kenny Marchant

America as we know it will end unless we end Medicare as we know it.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.
‐‐ Richard Ford

America before the 1960s was a pretty innocent place. We were the Lone Ranger galloping off to the rescue of the needy and the oppressed of the world, and we could get things done.
‐‐ Tim O'Brien

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
‐‐ Evan Esar

America brought us the baseball cap; it's one of my favorite hats.
‐‐ Philip Treacy

America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time.
‐‐ Ian Frazier

America can't beat anyone anymore.
‐‐ George Clooney

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin