Without Ambition Quotes
25 quotes by 22 authors
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here…
— Pearl Bailey
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A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
— Steven Brust
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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like…
— Margaret Mead
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If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
— Whitfield Diffie
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A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere.
— Sean Hampton
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. . . yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou…
— William Shakespeare
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I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.
— Rebecca Wells
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An objective is an ambition, and life without ambition is ... well, aimless wandering.
— Alfred Wainwright
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Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.
— James A. Champy
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We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So…
— Upamanyu Chatterjee
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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
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He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
— Salvador Dali
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
— John Steinbeck
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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(Men without ambition are boring) And that attitude, mistress, is why the females of your kind continue to struggle for equality. And why they continue…
— Richelle Mead
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Without cunning, there is no innovation. Without ambition, there is no accomplishment.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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What would rock and roll be without ambition, craziness, danger, and fun?
— Pete Wentz
Who Wrote These Without Ambition Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 25 Without Ambition Quotes as follows: