Ambition Quotes

2147 Ambition quotes by 1378 unique authors

Well I DO want to go up into space, but more than that, I'm dissatisfied with the fact that humans have only gone to the… — Takafumi Horie
It was our duty to expand. Those who cannot or will not join us are to be pitied. What we want to do, we can… — Ingvar Kamprad
When you're a self-made man you start very early in life. In my case it was at nine years old when I started bringing income… — Kirk Kerkorian
Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid . — John McCain
To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership . — Minoru Mori
We have always wanted Google to be a company that is deserving of great love. But we recognize this is an ambitious goal because most… — Larry Page
Like most business people, I want every aspect of my business to be perfect. I know that this goal is unachievable, but it is nevertheless… — Bob Parsons
I never expected to be in the papers. I personally never expected to be in the papers. The height of my ambition for these books… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I do not know whether I will be in this place for a short or a long time. That is for others to decide. But… — Kevin Rudd
Lots of ambitious work by young artists ends up in a dumpster after its warehouse debut. So an unknown artist's big glass vitrine holding a… — Charles Saatchi
The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger. — Friedrich Nietzsche
An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart… — Robert Louis Stevenson
All progress depends on the unreasonable man. — George Bernard Shaw
A sense of duty imprisons you. — Jenny Holzer
It's not up to anyone else to make me give my best. — Hakeem Olajuwon
We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage. — Aristotle
Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you. — John Dryden
Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame. — Baltasar Gracian
Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train. — Roger Penrose
Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy… — William Shakespeare
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but… — Philip Sidney
There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody.… — Anthony de Mello
Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite — Josh Billings
Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils. — Warren G. Harding
The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients. — Unknown Author

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