Ambition Quotes

2147 Ambition quotes by 1378 unique authors

Ambition is your inner voice that tells you, you can, and should, strive to go beyond your circumstances or situation in life. — Lloyd Blankfein
So long as the man with ambition is a failure, the world will tell him to let go of his ideal; but when his ambition… — Christian D. Larson
Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz. — Jon Pareles
A curious thing about Ugu the Shoemaker was that he didn't suspect in the least that he was wicked. He wanted to be powerful and… — L. Frank Baum
How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our… — Christiaan Huygens
Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of transcendent achievement. Few… — B. C. Forbes
It is well for civilization that human beings constantly strive to gain greater and greater rewards, for it is this urge, this ambition, this aspiration… — B. C. Forbes
Running and science draw on similar traits - stamina, ambition, patience, and the ability to overcome limits. — Wolfgang Ketterle
I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch. — Rebecca Wells
Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Un-put-down-able in… — Mary Karr
My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans. — Karl Lagerfeld
Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the… — William Laud
Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age? — Joseph A. Schumpeter
One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the silence that preceded… — Mark Doty
Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow. — William Merritt Chase
Any city has to give some thought to its ambition and brand in order to set sustainability goals. — Ginni Rometty
A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior. — Robert K. Merton
From the earliest ages of history to the present day there have never been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who enjoyed… — Andrew Jackson
More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute… — Hyman Rickover
My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons. — Gene Tunney
There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person. — Joseph O'Connor
Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are. If you view leadership as a bag of manipulative tricks… — Frances Hesselbein
A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of… — G. H. Hardy
One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will… — Samuel Dash
The only beneficiaries of income taxation are the politicians, for it not only gives them the means by which they can increase their emoluments, but… — Frank Chodorov

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