Ambition Quotes

2147 Ambition quotes by 1378 unique authors

It is only by going through a volume of work that... your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to… — Ira Glass
I loved the excitement and the pleasures of life in New York, the opportunities for advancement, the pursuit of ambition, the theaters, the places of… — Cass Gilbert
The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one’s own character. — Morihei Ueshiba
We can roam the bloated stacks of the Library of Alexandria, where all imagination and knowledge are assembled; we can recognize in its destruction the… — Alberto Manguel
Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses. — Criss Jami
Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature… — Albert Einstein
Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer's voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing. — Christian Nestell Bovee
An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims. — Christian Nestell Bovee
After visiting these places, you can easily understand how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as… — John F. Kennedy
I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and every thing that is contrary to… — Dwight L. Moody
I must get out all my ambitions and dust them. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large,… — Charles Caleb Colton
All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for the purposes of… — Charles Caleb Colton
As far as I can remember, I have always wanted everything from life, everything it can possibly give me. This desire separates me from people… — Deborah Feldman
What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition;… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel… — Ben Jonson
I have experienced the intensity of patriotism as a submarine officer, the ambitions of a competitive businessman, and the intensity of political debate. I have… — Jimmy Carter
America breeds ambition and while that can be a good thing, sometimes it's not. Ambition also breeds competition and that can be a very bad… — Chaka Khan
I would like to have insights into things like government, all those big ideas that you brought up that I simply don't have ideas about.… — Jasper Johns
What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future,… — Gloria Steinem
I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies. — Jodie Foster
I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that… — Michael J. Fox
The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one… — Barney Frank

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