Ambition Quotes

I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.

Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities.

If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.

To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls.

But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.

As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts.

The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.

For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.

The basic goal-reaching principle is to understand that you go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will always be able to see farther.

Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars That make ambition virtue.

I got serious about painting at 12, when most people give up.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.

Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.

Ambition and suspicion always go together.

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them.

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

Such joy ambition finds.

Ambition's debt is paid.

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.

The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.

Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation.

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

The one governmental agency that has no ambition.

When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish.

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

The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

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

Those who seize the day become seriously rich.

My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.

I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.

The future is what matters — because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present — like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot.

The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimate art.