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Ambition Quotes

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Thomas Jefferson

Men Politics Ambition Office Painful

Most of all I don't want to be bored. That's why I'd rather do something that has some sort of ambition, that risks failing, rather than make safer, more comfortable choices.

Risks Ambition Choices Want Why

I'd like to believe that achieving a leadership position is all about competency, capability and ambition, so I try not to distinguish between the sexes when it comes to giving career advice.

Leadership Ambition Believe Advice

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

God Me Ambition Destiny More Him

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.

Stephen Sondheim

Mother Woman Me Ambition Hands She

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 Evil Fame Spirit Worthy He

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

Wisdom Commitment Simplicity Ambition

My only ambition was to have 10 children. Fashion was an accident.

Children Ambition Fashion Only

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

Car Me Ambition Learn Driving Build

God only knows we need a great role model as a leader who is more leader than they are male or female, who is more about their mission that serves everyone than about ego and personal ambition that only serves them.

Leader God Great Ambition Ego Need

When you have been working so hard to reach a specific goal and then you realise that ambition, it's not always easy to raise yourself for another objective.

Yourself Ambition Reach You Goal

Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.

Money New York Me Ambition Too Much

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

Marquis de Sade

Life Strength Ambition Revenge Lust

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

Robert Browning

Man Ambition Would Does

My ambition is we want artists to be able to afford to create the music they want to create, and if it takes them five years to sit down and make the album they want to make, they should be able to afford that. That's my goal.

Music Ambition Goal Down Create Sit

What's a better foundation for drama? You have power, you have ambition, you have sex... that's the stuff of drama.

Leslie Odom, Jr.

Power Ambition Foundation Better You

As a woman, you feel that you shouldn't want to better yourself against others. Ambition has become such an ugly word, hasn't it?

Woman Yourself Ugly Ambition Better

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Benjamin Disraeli

Great Men People Ambition Want

Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.

Moment Ambition World Champion You

This tension between ambition and parenthood, that's not a reckoning that many men face. There are plenty of men who say, 'Oh, I need to be there for my kids, and I can't do x or y professionally,' but for the most part, that's a struggle that belongs to women in society.

Women Struggle Men Ambition Society

When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.

Day College Ambition One Day Would

My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.

Juliette Binoche

Moment I Am Ambition Be True Living

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

Mike Krzyzewski

Teacher School Ambition High School

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

Good Ambition Think Now Afraid Used

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