Quotes on Life Ambition

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Each child is poisoned by the society through teaching him ambition. Ambition is a poison far more dangerous than any alcohol can ever be, far more dangerous than marijuana or LSD, because ambition destroys your whole life. It keeps you moving in a false direction. It keeps you imagining, desiring, dreaming, it keeps you wasting your life. Ambition means a subtle creation of the ego, and once the ego is created you are in the grip of darkness. And the whole social structure depends on ambition.

I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

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

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.