Ambition Quotes

2147 Ambition quotes by 1378 unique authors

... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well… — Winston Churchill
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. — Winston Churchill
Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement. — James A. Champy
Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater! — Orison Swett Marden
Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the direction of our… — Price Pritchett
When you have a true ambition for something, you will not give up hope. Giving up hope is a sign that you are lacking ambition… — Unknown Author
There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation. — Michel de Montaigne
There is little doubt that, until 1846 when he helped to engineer the resignation of Robert Peel, Disraeli was driven by an ambition to make… — Christopher Hibbert
It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was… — Joseph Story
But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to… — Lena Dunham
At the age of 12 my ambition was to become a gangster. To be a wiseguy. Being a wiseguy was better than being President of… — Henry Hill
If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a man walks straight up to… — Josef Pieper
Challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction. I believe that ambition and initiative will ultimately triumph. — Dhirubhai Ambani
I am ashamed of a human race that can continue to allow the sordid ambitions of politicized groups who genuinely feel that right is on… — Ralph Steadman
Dont just go there and play. Go there and play with pride and show your ambitions. — Roger Milla
Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world. — Unknown Author
Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls — Taylor Caldwell
The fierce ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might well have been imagined by Horatio Alger, Jr.-- or Samuel Goldwyn-- but… — Unknown Author
Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace. — John Cowper Powys
Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition to succeed. Atheism… — Julian Baggini
Many pray for the power of God. More every year. Those prayers sound powerful, sincere, godly, and without ulterior motive. Hidden under such prayer and… — Gene Edwards
To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead. — Norman O. Brown
I believe that Jesus would have given His life for just one person. Jesus emptied Himself, He humbled Himself and He so yielded Himself to… — Heidi Baker
Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more. Cathedrals, sonatas, encyclopedias:… — Tom Rachman
It is as great a crime to leave a woman alone in her agony and deny her relief from her suffering as it is to… — Grantly Dick-Read

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