#ambition

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. ↗

— Herbert Kaufman

#coaches #courage #failure #habit #long

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman. ↗

— Lynn Davies

#enjoyed #great #i #sportsman #youngster

If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

#almost #ambition #anything #certain #might

Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I. ↗

— Eydie Gorme

#ambitious #before #children #definitely #got

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge! ↗

— William Hague

#best #self-knowledge #tempered

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