Ambition Quotes

2147 quotes by 1445 authors

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What… — Mary Kay Ash
We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My… — Mary Kay Ash
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… — Saint Augustine
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The… — Marcus Aurelius
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions. — Marcus Aurelius
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however… — Paul Auster
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… — Sai Baba
There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an… — Charles Babbage
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here… — Pearl Bailey
The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a… — Russell Baker
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory. — James A. Baldwin
I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition. — Tallulah Bankhead
Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds. — James M. Barrie
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste. — Charles Baudelaire
I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian… — Emmanuelle Beart
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without… — Henry Ward Beecher
In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family. — Monica Bellucci
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. — A. C. Benson
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. — Ambrose Bierce

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