Explore Quotes on Ambition

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.

If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.

I have only one ambition, which is to be famous.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.

I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.