Quotes on My Ambition

My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better one is to put more emphasis on enjoyment and on getting a rounded experience and on things like friendship, rather than on sheer achievement.

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

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

I don't know what is the meaning of death, but I am not afraid to die - and I go on, non-stop, going forward with life. Even though I, Bruce Lee, may die some day without fulfilling all of my ambitions, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do and what I've done, I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of thinking in biomedical research.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

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

As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style.

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. [] It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: he made the books and he died.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.