Ambition Quotes

2147 Ambition quotes by 1378 unique authors

While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers. — Bill Gates
Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions. — Baden Powell de Aquino
It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in… — Lee Atwater
The ambitions we have will become the stories we live. — Donald Miller
I want you to live the best life you can. You can be world-changers. .. Pursue this life of love with focus and passion and… — John Legend
I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it. — Ben Elton
Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways. — Francesco Guicciardini
Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To… — Jack Kornfield
It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do. — Barack Obama
Your heart is smothering under your small ambitions. — Timothy Keller
Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his… — Napoleon Hill
I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of… — Bhagat Singh
Comfort kills ambition. Get uncomfortable and get used to it in your pursuit of your goals and dreams. — Robert Kiyosaki
Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many… — Jim Rohn
Every actor's greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case,… — Bela Lugosi
My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better one is to… — Royal Robbins
It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible. — Thomas Keneally
Perhaps the most reliable route to meaning and joy, to plunging below the surface and seeking more than the superficiality of material ambition, is connection… — Michael Short
The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness of… — Phyllis McGinley
I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful. And I had no other ambition than to discover with the help of new means… — Maurice de Vlaminck
To write rhythmic prose one must go deep into oneself and find the anonymous and multiple rhythm of the blood. Prose needs to be built… — Rainer Maria Rilke
There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God. — John Stott
The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to… — John Stott

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