Ambition Quotes

Ambition is not everything.No. Not everything, but it's something. Something important, if you ask me.

~ Tiffany Quay Tyson

. . . I should wish you to think more deeply, to look further, and aim higher than you do.

~ Anne Brontë

Many of these new readers were not yet college-educated, but in terms of their seriousness about the world, their own literacy, and above all their ambitions for their children, they might as well have been.

~ David Halberstam

My mind was not that of a conqueror, but that of a cow that spends its life chewing contentedly in the meadow of invoices, waiting for the train of eternal grace to pass by. How good it felt to exist without pride of ambition. To live in hibernation.

~ Amélie Nothomb

He hated House members who longed only to run for the Senate, and senators who longed only to run for the presidency. He was appalled by what he felt television had done to the Senate by the mid-fifties. It had become a major launching platform for presidential campaigns. He thought television had ruined the Senate as a serious body. “All they do there is preen and comb their hair and run for President. It’s like a presidential primary over there

~ David Halberstam

At the end, we will arrive where we started.

~ Aditya Ajmera

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

~ Georgia O'keeffe

Ambition and stupidity are a dangerous combination.

~ Dean Koontz

There is no friendship between kings.

~ Jayne Castel

Embrace the beauty of good moment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Beware of that demon called 'Changing The World'.

~ Marty Rubin

The only candid thing in life is time, nothing else flows seamlessly

~ Akul Singh

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

~ Jim Carrey

Being crazy, for the rest of us, is a form of sanity.

~ Dave Matthes

Let me ask you this: How many days do you have left, if any, in the life you promised for yourself yesterday?

~ Dave Matthes

So you mean to tell me you won't fuck anyone you don't share some kind of deep emotional connection with? What a sad, depressing, truly horrible life you must lead...

~ Dave Matthes

In this world, you only get what you grab for.

~ Giovanni Boccaccio

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

~ Lena Dunham

Peace is the first casualty in every ambition.

~ Sweety Shinde

Leadership is not about your ambition. It is about bringing out the ambitions of your team.

~ Cheryl A. Bachelder

Ambition is a path, not a destination, and it is essentially the same path for everybody. No matter what the goal is, the path leads through Pilgrim's Progress regions of motivation, hard work, persistence, stubbornness, and resilience under disappointment. Unconsidered, merely indulged, ambition becomes a vice; it can turn a man into a machine that knows nothing but how to run. Considered, it can be something else - pathway to the stars, maybe.

~ Wallace Stegner

I don't care much whether I ever get to know anything - but I want to work out something in figures - something that hasn't got to do with human beings. I don't want people particularly. In some ways, Henry, I'm a humbug - I mean, I'm not what you all take me for. I'm not domestic, or very practical or sensible, really.And if I could calculate things, and use a telescope, and have to work out figures, and know to a fraction where I was wrong, I should be perfectly happy, and I believe I should give William all he wants.

~ Virginia Woolf

Like overzealous religious converts, climbers originally from the lower rungs of society tend to go overboard when they ape the upper class.

~ Maureen Corrigan

Distraught with the comprehension of his demise, a shovel stood dormant, in the ditch of her own digging. Now sheltered from the glare of greed and ambition, were the distasteful thoughts sprinkled in fool’s gold.

~ Don Swann Ii

For he, who has never sailed through storms, can never trust sailors of such ships.

~ Ashish Jaiswal

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.

~ Lena Dunham

The problem with telling people that they can do anything they want to do is that it is objectively, factually inaccurate. Otherwise the whole world would just be ballet dancers and pop stars.

~ David Nicholls

At the end of the day let their be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today.

~ Noel Dejesus

The British have always been madly overambitious, and from one angle it can seem like bravery, but from another it looks suspiciously like a lack of foresight.

~ Ben Aaronovitch

There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.

~ Stefan Zweig

Trying to be more than human one becomes less.

~ Marty Rubin

At the end of the day let there be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today.

~ Noel Dejesus

Somewhere between what is...and what can be...begs the question...what are you meant to be?

~ Manoj Vaz

Always stay one step a head, unless you’re already there

~ Benny Bellamacina

My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.

~ Venus Williams

And the next time I did school stuff in the middle of the night, I just did it in my closet with the door locked. Honestly, what is wrong with this country when striving for excellence means you need antidepressants?

~ Rachel Hawkins

She knows about the music stuff, but she doesn't care. That's why I didn't tell her about my job at the studio. She doesn't want make me want to be better, like you do. She doesn't get that it's scary... to want something so much and not be sure if you're good enough.

~ Brandy Colbert

What's important is the ambition that results from our weakness.

~ Sharon Creech

A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you’re from, especially if you’re from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic.

~ Leah Stewart

You want to know the great thing about today, it doesn't care about what you did or didn't do yesterday or what you're going to do tomorrow, it only cares about what you do right now.

~ Noel Dejesus