Ambition Quotes

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
Pearl Bailey

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

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Samuel Johnson

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Milan Kundera

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

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
Emile M. Cioran

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
Adam Ant

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

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.
Rebecca Miller

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

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.
James Cook

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

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.
Wilfred Owen

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali

Ambition never comes to an end.
Kenneth Kaunda

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
Joseph Conrad

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
A. C. Benson

I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have accomplished it.
Claire Bloom

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
Philip Massinger

Don’t let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.
William Feather

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.
Ella Maillart

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Thomas Carlyle

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
Lawrence Welk

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
Karl Von Clausewitz

Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.
Brenda Blethyn

If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
Whitfield Diffie

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition.
Terry Josephson

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
William Hazlitt

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

We’re not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.
Heather Donahue

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.
William Feather

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
Carl Sagan

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Time is the only critic without ambition.
John Steinbeck

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
Henry Van Dyke

When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Thomas Merton

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Timothy Leary

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
Henry C. Link