A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.

I think there's no limit to ambition, and if you want something, you can make anything happen, so go for it.

I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.

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

People - running from unhappiness, hiding in power - are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

Know your limitations and be content with them. Too much ambition results in promotion to a job you can't do.

My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.

We are not going to waste our reserves and burn them for any political ambitions. We will act very carefully.

Running and science draw on similar traits - stamina, ambition, patience, and the ability to overcome limits.

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry- great. To have hopes, dreams- great.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.

We have our ambition for the future and God. And thus we put God as a plus sign after something else we want.

I was not pushed into the business by anything other than my own ambition and my own dream of wanting to act.

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.

If you have got a dream and you've got ambition, then go for it. You know, unless you try, you'll never know.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.

People — running from unhappiness, hiding in power — are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.

If you have ambitions, dream of what you wish to accomplish, and then put your shoulder to the wheel and work.

I have ambitions to set records which will be hard to chase down, like getting more than 100 caps for Ireland.

It had long been an ambition to find the line of force that might lead to the Holy Land in the time of Christ.

I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.

Its a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.

My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.

People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer's voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing.

My mother taught us that ambition is part of femininity and really taught us to have substance but also style.

Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales.

It's a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do.

It has been a long journey, but if you dream and have the ambition and want to work hard, then you can achieve.

With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.

I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.

Marriage is part of a sort of 50′s revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Never allow anyone to take YOUR spirit away from you.

I have remained resentful to this day When any but myself presumed to say That there was anything I couldn't be.

Aggressiveness is good in a combat leader. Combining that with ambition and insecurity becomes more problematic.

I feel that my drive and ambition is more American, while the passionate, laid-back side of me is all Brazilian.

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