Ambition Quotes

2147 Ambition quotes by 1378 unique authors

My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country,… — Omar Bongo
With some basic skills, ambition and persistence, then there is little limit to what you can achieve, and by trying you can often surprise yourself. — Joe Gold
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions — David Hume
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer. — William Hazlitt
Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it… — Unknown Author
And remember, the people that you've seen here tonight are professionals, so please don't try any of this at home, because you are ugly and… — Nick Frost
That sense of ambition, of aspiration, of moving forward, will be very important — Hazel Blears
Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself. — Roger L'Estrange
The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire. — Peter McWilliams
There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing… — Andrew Carnegie
Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend. — Pierre Corneille
If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything. — Whitfield Diffie
A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly. — Henry Ward Beecher
I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work. — Charles Babbage
I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large. — Raymond Loewy
If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than… — G. H. Hardy
In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance… — Ernest Starling
Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious pursuit of knowledge, alluding to… — E. O. Wilson
My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of thinking… — Jonas Salk
Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by which… — Charles Babbage
To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have not possessed enough… — Humphry Davy
Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when… — Joseph Hall
WE NEED MORE OF THOSE AND IF YOU STILL HATE THE WORD, IT IS NOT THE WORD THAT IS IMPORTANT. IT'S THE IDEA AND THE… — Emma Watson
Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable… — Tom Robbins
Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Who Wrote These Ambition Quotes

1,378 authors contributed a total of 2,147 Ambition Quotes, led by these top contributors: