#ambition

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition? ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#corrupting #likelihood #man #who

My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize. ↗

— Alexandra Roach

#become #chameleon #like #recognize #those

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children. ↗

— Paul Auster

#children #could #going #guess #however

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. ↗

— James Madison

#counteract #made #must

I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live. ↗

— Gerard Depardieu

#i #live #living #present #true

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#avarice #masked

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#dream #engine

I see my face in the mirror, and I said, 'No, my ambition is not to be an actor.' ↗

— Dino De Laurentiis

#ambition #face #i #i see #mirror

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion. ↗

— Derek Jarman

#delusion #folly #illusion #preserve #pursuit

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

— Thomas Jefferson

#begets #dependence #designs #fit #germ