Ambition Quotes · Page 73

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Success comes to man who does today what others were thinking of doing tomorrow.

— Anonymous

It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.

— Henry David Thoreau

I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.

— Edmund White

“I should not act better than anybody, but sure as hell, NOBODY’S better than ME!”

— Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin

Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.

— Michel de Montaigne

It's important to have people in your life who will applaud your ambition.

— Kamala Harris

Ambition is a funny thing. You can completely screw yourself with it if you're not careful.

— Simon Le Bon

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people…

— Lana Del Rey

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest…

— William Hazlitt

Musically, I have little ambition. The only real ambition I have is to make music and do music whenever I feel like…

— Floor Jansen

Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.

— Philip Sidney

Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Well I DO want to go up into space, but more than that, I'm dissatisfied with the fact that humans have only…

— Takafumi Horie

Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.

— Walter Raleigh

I didn't mean to go into comedy, that was accidental - acting was my original ambition and I would really love to…

— Rebecca Front

If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first…

— Anonymous

“That was the real difference, Ferguson concluded. Not too little money or too much money, not what a person did or failed…

— Paul Auster

“It is my ambition as a Dichter to maintain, for a small number of people who may happen to understand me and…

— Hermann Hesse

Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life -…

— Anonymous

You are far more than your personality, more than your habits, more than your achievements. You are an infinitely complex human being…

— Caroline Myss

My father's vision was to see the Pilbara developed in a way that would benefit his beloved north, and West Australia and…

— Gina Rinehart

Do not procrastinate. Someone has said that procrastination is the thief of time. Actually, procrastination is much more. It is the thief…

— Thomas S. Monson

Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

— Thomas Carlyle

I've always been a sort of curious and restless person. I've always wrestled with ambition.

— Lydia Polgreen

“What if my ambition is to sweep hair... wash dishes... and be left the hell alone.”

— Luke Cage

You quit, you lose. You keep going, you may still lose. But, your ambition will never die.

— Gurbaksh Chahal

Love the power within even if its dark and you have to pretend.

— Savannah

Sushma Swaraj has no personal ambition. I take things in my stride.

— Sushma Swaraj

Ambition is something you turn into a plan to create an online personality, a brand, a network.

— Cris Mazza

Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do.

— Jean Monnet

I always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se.

— Glenn Howerton

We can tend to be too ambitious when we're young, and a little blind.

— Terence Trent D'Arby

I'm used to realising all my dreams and targets through my determination and ambition.

— Essam El Hadary

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Your dreams matter. But you have to open your eyes to see that it can come true even through the tough times.

— NoJay Moon

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

— Anonymous

With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.

— John Milton

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

— James F. Cooper