Pastoral Resources

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come.

I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.

Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.

My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.