Pastoral Resources

Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it class spirit, esprit de corps, good fellowship, or good will to men.

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

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.

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.

I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.