It's okay to have personal ambitions, but you have to take someone with you.
Roger Staubach

Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
Sai Baba

Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.
Robert Jackson

Most minds think from A to B to G to O, or hold goals and ambitions to keep them going.
Lynette Fromme

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
King Abdullah II

My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.
Omar Bongo

My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.
Joshua Lederberg

My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work.
Robert B. Laughlin

My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.
James Joyce

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
H. G. Wells

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
Saint Augustine

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
Muhammad Iqbal

Since we started, Chris and I had theatrical ambitions.
Neil Tennant

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
Helmut Jahn

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that.
David Herbert Donald

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
Willa Cather

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.
Placido Domingo

The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.
Zach Wamp

The United States must also continue to push the United Nations Security Council for strong action to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions. In the meantime, it is our job to take meaningful steps to eliminate the threats posed by Iran.
Allyson Schwartz