Ambition Quotes

Ambition is no cure for love!

— Walter Scott

“Action achieves ambition.”

— Amit Kalantri

My ambitions have ambitions.

— Behdad Sami

You exist! Be ambitious!

— Will Evans

I am still full of ambition.

— Jan Timman

Let go & let faith..

— Raghib Clitso

“Put work into your dreams.”

— Lesley D. Nurse

I have a lot of ambition.

— Katy Perry

Yeah I want it all, that's why I strive for it

— Drake

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

— Steven Brust

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need

— Ben Jonson

I was not born with tremendous ambition.

— Roger Moore

Somebody ought to tell him his ambition is showing.

— Harry Essex

Determination makes one destined to succeed.

— Anil Sinha

“I don't have any babies or ambition. I have it all!”

— Nan Little

Your ambition outweighed your talent

— Casey Stoner

I had no ambition to be a football coach. I wanted to be a spy for MI5 or MI6.

— Emma Hayes

“The universe runs on the principle that one who can exert the most evil on other creatures runs the show.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

I really believe in work, work, work so my standards are very high for those people without ambition.

— Paolo di Canio

How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.

— Richard Francis Burton

“THE WHOLE LIFE IS A SUCCESSION OF DREAMS; MY AMBITION IS TO BE A CONSCIOUS DREAMER, THATS ALL.”

— Swami Vivekananda

“Ambition is a poor excuse for not being smart enough to be lazy.”

— Anonymous

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

— Anonymous

I have many years to get better and better, and that has to be my ambition. The day you think there is…

— Lionel Messi

There is certainly no want of journalistic ambition among the purveyors of what is now called 'long-form,' nor of novelistic technique brought…

— Tom Junod

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent,…

— Alva Myrdal

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will…

— Carl von Clausewitz

I don't like guys who are conventional. I'm an achiever; he has to be an achiever. I admire drive, I admire ambition.…

— Priyanka Chopra

The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to…

— Bruce Lee

Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in…

— Jeffrey Kluger

“When I was young," wrote Jim, "my ambition was to be one of the people who makes a difference in this world.…

— Brian Jay Jones

Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them;…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world,…

— Jane Austen

“Infinite ambition and infinite loneliness, receiving neither help nor sympathy, I did it all for myself--navigation, mathematics, science, literature and what not.…

— Jack London

Level 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with…

— James C. Collins

Because your character is always full of ambition, the news of my being locked up must have been much harder on you…

— Diet Eman

In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I…

— William H. Gass

He wanted to impart some of the truths Bruce Denton had taught him, that you dont' become a runner by winning a…

— John L. Parker Jr

The whole point of why I'm doing this is to show all kids, boys and girls, that women take up half the…

— Geena Davis