Ambition Quotes

Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and simple that it will fit easily on the front of a T-shirt.

The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You still have to wash your socks.

A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere.

Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.

You have this ambition to make something perfect, exactly right. Of course, necessarily, it fails in some way and you have to accept that for what it is, and then you're on to the next thing.

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

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Anyone can be an entrepreneur. All it takes is a little drive and ambition.

Give your employees a mission that matches their ambitions. When you challenge people, they surprise you.

But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.

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

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter tamen causa virtutem est.]

Ambition is never modest. If modesty means to have middling success, then I can only say: I'm not interested.

The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.

My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.

I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents.

There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

Vanity is easily duped. Ambition, not.

The ambition of an England manager should be to become England manager.

To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you’ve got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out.

My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.

What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.

Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.

On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.

I have ambitions I want to fulfil, to enjoy more success with Brazil.

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

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

Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.

I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light.

It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.

Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.

Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them.

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

I must get out all my ambitions and dust them.

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

One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the silence that preceded the poem.

God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.

Desiring to excel is not a sin. It is motivation that determines ambition's character. Our Lord never taught against the urge to high achievement, but He did expose and condemn unworthy motivation.

The desire to reach hearts is wise

Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

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

Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

There’s always a stigma attached to the word ‘ambition’ and women. I’ve embraced it. Ambition is NOT a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.

Don’t get depressed about not being where you want to be. This nagging feeling of anxiety is actually called ambition. Ambition is your friend.