Ambition Quotes

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a tim...

I’d be glad to go out on a limb with thoseWho want nothing beyond what the wind bestows,Were I not b...

You don’t come to live here [New York City] unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own ...

You don’t come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn’t a ...

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether pec...

His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.

I believe at least in one of the chief tenets of the Christian faith--contentment with a lowly place...

Suicide is a confession of failure. And like divorce, it is shrouded in excuses and rationalizations...

It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless ...

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, h...

Every ceiling when reached becomes a floor upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescri...

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a sk...

I have an ambition to live 300 years. I will not live 300 years. Maybe I will live one year more. Bu...

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or u...

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or u...

...it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labou...

. . . I should wish you to think more deeply, to look further, and aim higher than you do.

Some of the best of us are quite unambitious.

Trapnel wanted, among other things, to be a writer, a dandy, a lover, a comrade, an eccentric, a sag...

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent caus...

From my boyhood I have had an intense and overwhelming conviction that my real vocation lay in the d...

You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know t...

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear n...

I find comfort in the fact that the longer I'm in politics the less nourishing popularity becomes, t...

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates....

Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride.

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we...

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of ...

I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above t...

Relinquish! What! my vocation? My great work? My foundation laid on earth for a mansion in heaven? M...

It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may ...

We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambit...

How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our might...

It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude ...

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct...

I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Ne...

And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It ...

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated asso...

We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time...

Universities, he (William Dershowitz) says, have been absorbed into the commercial ethos. Instead of...

It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.

Ambition and stupidity are a dangerous combination.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housew...

People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, ha...

People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, ha...

He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was ...

To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetr...

Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.

The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddlin...

There was this tendency to drift. And yet  when she thought about it, what did she really want to do...

Lifting her lovely and longing face towards the inaudible chant of the sun, she drifted through her ...

Live for each second without hesitation

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving ...

Ambition had a price, and that price was friendship.

This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which...

Some men escape the grip. Maybe their wives have no social ambitions; maybe they've hit a sentence o...

Ambition is the necessary spur of a great mind to great action; when acting upon a weak mind it impe...

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that...

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every...

Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them ver...

The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and...

The worst president is closer by nature to the best then either is to anyone who has not gone throug...

In the closeness of the passage, the queen could smell the other woman's perfume, a musky scent that...

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious re...

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ...

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a ...

In this world, you only get what you grab for.

My second wife left me because she said I was too ambitious. She didn't realize that it is only the ...

I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, a...

The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying ve...

And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition bu...

The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but ...

The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but ...

The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is lea...

...but doth not the person who expends vast sums in the furniture of his house or the ornaments of h...

Nobody scarce doth any good, yet they all agree in praising those who do. Indeed, it is strange that...

I have heard many a young unmarried lady exclaim with a bold sweep of conception, “Ah me! I wish I w...

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift man...

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift man...

If you would hit the mark you must aim a little above it: Every arrow that flies feels the attracti...

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift man...

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift man...

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

Nippers was a whiskered, sallow, and, upon the whole, rather piratical-looking young man of about fi...

…and they limp and halt, they’re all wrinkled, drawn, they squint to the side, can’t look you in the...

From the very beginning Ihad felt a definite contact with Yeamon, a kind of tenuous understanding th...

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs