Ambition Quotes

2147 Ambition quotes by 1378 unique authors

My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil's most wanted list. — Leonard Ravenhill
I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and pieces of story.… — Unknown Author
As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious plucking of… — Arthur Nersesian
The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses, just as Mrs.… — Annie Fellows Johnston
...ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I… — John M. Geddes
It's never too late to realize your ambitions. Take the first step by daring to dream big dreams. Then have the confidence to take a… — Unknown Author
Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave. — William Davenant
The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not… — Milan Kundera
It is quite possible that someone is insane and they think they have a chance. Not insane in the clinical sense, but they may have… — Davy Crockett
To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may… — James A. Garfield
There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe in giving a… — Charles M. Schwab
All should be taught that the highest ambition is to be happy, and to add to the well-being of others; that place and power are… — Robert Green Ingersoll
History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will qualify them as… — Thomas Jefferson
You haven't changed. You may say: 'I'm full of love, I'm full of truth, I'm full of knowledge, I'm full of wisdom.' I say: 'That's… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
. . . yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou… — William Shakespeare
To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on to your place',… — William Safire
Never be too absorbed by your own ambitions to encourage those of your family. — Wes Fesler
Power from any source tends to create an appetite for additional power. It was almost inevitable that the super-rich would one day aspire to control… — W. Cleon Skousen
Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing. — Thomas Hobbes
After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining… — Eva Mendes
If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition. — Hugh B. Brown
There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it is not Christian. — Pope Francis
It is remarkable what a woman can accomplish with just a little ambition. — Elizabeth Arden
Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted… — Stephen Spender

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