#ambition

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. ↗

— Quintilian

#itself #often #parent #though #vice

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

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#infirmity #last #minds #noble

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

People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#blair #cannot #him #his #lose

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. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#be happy #desire #end #enterprise #every

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#ambition #cannot #cured #exalted #favour