Ambition Quotes: Fuel Your Aspirations and Dreams

"Ambition is not a vice of little people"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory"

Herbert Kaufman, Writer

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition"

Timothy Leary, Educator

"Ambition is the last refuge of the failure"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"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"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked"

Walter Savage Landor, Poet

"Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all"

Bob Marley, Musician

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved"

Helen Keller, Author

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend"

Katharine Hepburn, Actress

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

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens"

Lao Tzu, Author

"That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine"

Elvis Presley, Musician

"Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

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

Bono, Musician

"Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government"

James K. Polk, President

"An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition"

Michael Korda, Novelist

"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"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

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

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition"

Cesare Pavese, Poet

"We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential"

Barack Obama, President

"Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need"

Ben Jonson, Poet

"Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!"

Walter Savage Landor, Poet

"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy"

Milan Kundera, Writer

"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 on earth is ever so alive"

Pearl Bailey, Actress

"Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose"

Wilfred Owen, Soldier

"If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web"

John McCarthy, Politician

"My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons"

Gene Tunney, Athlete

"Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds"

J. M. Barrie, Novelist

"Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go"

James Cook, Explorer

"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"

Noah Webster, Writer

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