Quotes about Ambition

God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

High expectations are the key to everything.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

I even asked [Saniyya Sidney] why she wanted to be an actor and she said, "I'm serious about this. These other little kids they want to play, and I don't have time for that.

There are opportunities around. It takes time and motivation to take them.

I want to be like Tom Cruise from 'The Outsiders' and go on and do amazing movies for a long time.

Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.