If you are ambitious you are political. Your ambition may take the form of religion, but the politics is there. Then you are competing with other saints. Osho Religion Politics Funny
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. Abraham Lincoln
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice. Georges Bizet Religion
It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me. Franz Liszt
The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise. Roger Ebert
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. Thomas Jefferson Virtue
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others. Niccolo Machiavelli
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. Oscar Wilde
Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go. James Cook
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 Passion
Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking. Napoleon Bonaparte Thinking
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. Salvador Dali
