Ambition

"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."

"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled."

"My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman."

"Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all."

"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise."

"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential."

"I think, as you get older, that's when your ambitions become "peculiar"."

"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it."

"I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody."

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

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."