Ambition Quotes

2147 Ambition quotes by 1378 unique authors

There is not a man in America who has not had a secret ambition to boot an infant. — W.C. Fields
Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should be… — Wallace Stegner
The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly… — Ambrose Bierce
Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm. — Unknown Author
There are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short,… — Barack Obama
Ambition is the ecclesiastical lust. — Unknown Author
I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition. — David Byrne
People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them. — Diane Setterfield
Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness. — Epicurus
There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above ambition, the other… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity. — Unknown Author
He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he was prepared to overcome his… — Iain Pears
To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is… — Josephine Hart
I have a lot of ambition. — Katy Perry
I'm going to let love lead the way, always. And I was born with this blind - blind ambition, and it's kind of gotten me… — Katy Perry
It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be… — Leonardo da Vinci
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious. — Luc de Clapiers
You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire. — Margaret Atwood
Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity. — Norm MacDonald
With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose. — Norm MacDonald
A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere. — Sean Hampton
The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and… — Stendhal
Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat. — Steven Erikson
Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity… — Thomas Stearns Eliot

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