Most people try to avoid cliches. It's my ambition in life to try to get 'em right!

To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

Some of the brightest and best women in our society are stifled in their ambitions.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success.

[Depp] has real ambitions, but he is deeply afraid of being considered pretentious.

It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.

Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.

I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.

He had ambitions, at one time, to become a sex maniac, but he failed his practical.

I don't want anyone to feel they can't achieve their ambitions if they are dyslexic.

Elections to office, which are the great objects of ambition, I look at with terror!

If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.

I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition.

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.

It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

What is ambition but desire of greatness? And what is greatness but extent of power?

This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.

It's not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money.

My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special.

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

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

Acting is a big ambition, but I still have a professional wrestling world to conquer.

There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

I have no political ambitions; never want to be an MP or MLA or a Rajya Sabha member.

I never had ambition to become president of the state or to accomplish more than men.

I bow to no one in my ambition to see Glasgow be as successful as it possibly can be.

It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.

'Thou shalt not bore' is a commandment that should be at the centre of our ambitions.

Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.

If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!

In the same way Marxism robs workers of ambition, Feminism robs men and women of love.

'Keeper' is about fathers, ultimately. and also conservation, commitment and ambition.

You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.

An objective is an ambition, and life without ambition is ... well, aimless wandering.

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

Without cunning, there is no innovation. Without ambition, there is no accomplishment.

Most minds think from A to B to G to O, or hold goals and ambitions to keep them going.

My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.

To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

You know, I stumble about what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I've never had ambitions.

You don't need a four-year college degree if you have burning ambition or a great plan.

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