Ambition Quotes

2147 Ambition quotes by 1378 unique authors

Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we… — Dean Koontz
Humans are lonely creators. Humans always desire and yearn for others. Humans thirst for ambitions. When things don't go their way, they start thirsting for… — Unknown Author
You have to dream before your dreams can come true. — Abdul Kalam
If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he… — Unknown Author
These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds… — Samuel Johnson
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. — Baruch Spinoza
Keep ambitions high, in front of God and people, Your credibility will be in proportion to your ambitions — Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. — Franz Kafka
Well, every man has a religion; has something in heaven or earth which he will give up everything else for - something which absorbs him… — Walt Whitman
It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible… — Robert Solow
We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our short sight we affect to… — Paul Laurence Dunbar
Your real being only flowers with unconditional love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life. — Rajneesh
We need spirited, energetic and strong young people whose hearts are filled with life, enthusiasm, zeal and dynamism; whose souls are full of ambition, aspiration… — Hassan al-Banna
O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world… — Walter Raleigh
I touched the wall and all my dreams, hopes and ambitions basically coalesced into one moment. — Unknown Author
I never underestimated myself. And I never saw anything wrong with ambition. — Angela Merkel
The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms. She is more… — John Burroughs
I think fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition. — Ethan Canin
I don't believe you are simply born with the ambition of becoming chancellor. But if you want to make a difference, if you enjoy putting… — Angela Merkel
Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better. — Pat Conroy
Potential is an excuse to procrastinate; Ambition is a means to thrive. — Unknown Author
You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil. — Friedrich Nietzsche
As great a picture can be made as one's mental capacity-no greater. Art cannot be taught; it must be self-inspiration, though the imagination may be… — Edward Weston
The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills… — Eric Rucker Eddison
An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear,… — Mary Kay Ash

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