Ambition Quotes

Never be too absorbed by your own ambitions to encourage those of your family.

Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.

Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour; Ambition is not tir'd with toll nor cloy'd with power.

Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd, Nor think ambition wise, because 'tis brave; For though we like it, as a forward child, 'Tis so unsound, her cradle is the grave.

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.

Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood; the highest, envy.

They that soar too high, often fall hard.

Pride went before, ambition follows him.

Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.

Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition

You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success.

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.

'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.

To resolve conflicts, excessive ambitions and one's own fears and aspirationis must be sacrificed.

The only way to coast is downhill.

Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.

Action often precedes the feeling.

When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism.

People need not fear the unknown if they have a capable of achieving what they need and what

Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."--From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

Tell the world what you intend to do but first show it.

Already a congressman, to a mentor "I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.

They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.

The best is the enemy of good.

This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I must admit, somewhat obscene.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs

By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

I have no spurTo prick the sides of my intent, but onlyVaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itselfAnd falls on the other.

Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride.

You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well try what you do want.

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground

...you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. The real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.

Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do.

Everyone— black as well as white— thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land.

I thrice presented him a kingly crown. Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?

Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.

Ambition should be made from sterner stuff.

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.

Once you say you're going to settle for second that's what happens to you in life I find.

Ah but a man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for?

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you the society of your contemporaries the connection of events.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.

Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.

I think this business of good vs. evil is of no interest to the power hungry

If you are my food, how am I supposed to feel pity towards you? That would mean starvation for me. “A hungry leopard told a fallen, panting, imploring gazelle