“Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.” – Albert Einstein

“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.” – Salvador Dalí

“Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as a sheep.” – Madonna

“Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.” – Albert Einstein

“We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community… Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.” – Cesar Chavez

“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

“Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.” – Oscar Wilde

“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” – Bill Bradley

“Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose” – Frank Tyger

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