I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way. Joe DiMaggio
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
Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy. Bryant H.McGill
Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking. Napoleon Bonaparte
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Helen keller
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. Napoleon Bonaparte
I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell. Peter Ackroyd
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.Lord Chesterfield
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it. Christian Nestell Bovee
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.Benjamin Disraeli
My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me. Michael Eric Dyson
My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.Venus Williams
My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons. Gene Tunney