Ambition Quotes

2147 Ambition quotes by 1378 unique authors

For many, many years, I was always whipping up things in order to keep myself busy and moving ever forward and saying, 'What's next? What's… — Jane Lynch
The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and… — Samuel Johnson
To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she… — Moliere
Ambition is only vanity ennobled. — Jerome K. Jerome
Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods. — Alexander Pope
Ambition, the soldier's virtue. — William Shakespeare
Dream your dreams with open eyes and make them come true. — T.E. Lawrence
If one were truly aware of the value of human life, to waste it blithely on distractions and the pursuit of vulgar ambitions would be… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Ambition, fueled by compassion, wisdom and integrity, is a powerful force for good that will turn the wheels of industry and open the doors of… — Zig Ziglar
The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity… — John Jay Chapman
When there is no thought. no desire, no ambition, in that state of no-mind truth descends in you - or ascends in you. As far… — Rajneesh
To accept yourself wherever. you are.... And don't think in terms of competition! You need not be anywhere else. Wherever you are, if you can… — Rajneesh
Ambition is violence, the very effort to succeed in the world is violent. — Rajneesh
The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own. — Richard Francis Burton
The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended… — Samuel Johnson
He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She well knows… — John Quincy Adams
Cast out envy; you can have all that you want, and you need not envy any man what he has. Above all things, see to… — Wallace D. Wattles
Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind… — Romola Garai
I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the… — W. Somerset Maugham
What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Criticism is the price of ambition. — Robin Sharma
On his character Dean in Blue Valentine: It's sad, because he just doesn't have any ambition outside of loving his wife and his daughter, which… — Ryan Gosling
The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at… — Thomas Jefferson
Marriage is part of a sort of 50′s revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition. — Calvin Trillin

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