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I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.

I am still full of ambition.

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.