Ambition Quotes

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. (Timothy Leary)
A man without ambition is like a bird without wings. View quote
Salvador Dalí
God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so. View quote
Norman Mailer
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition. View quote
Cesare Pavese
Ambition is not a vice of little people. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. View quote
Sallust
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. View quote
James Madison
The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government. View quote
James K. Polk
The love of fame, as it enters at times into his mind, is only another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority - that of time. View quote
William Hazlitt
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. View quote
Petrarch
Ambition can creep as well as soar. (Edmund Burke)
A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be. View quote
Steven Brust
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. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. View quote
Emil Cioran
Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose. View quote
Wilfred Owen
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust. View quote
John Webster
A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment. View quote
Frances Burney
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. View quote
Elvis Presley
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)
Time is the only critic without ambition. View quote
John Steinbeck
I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know. View quote
Frank Sinatra
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. View quote
Carl Sagan
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. View quote
Salvador Dalí