“I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.” – Thomas Carlyle
“Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.” – Bob Dylan
“Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – …
“All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to …
“Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ”coaches” ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.” – Herbert Kaufman
“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books what other men do not say in whole books” …
“The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.” – Robert Burton
“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 …
“Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.” – Buddha
“Ambition is the last refuge of failure.” – Oscar Wilde
“Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.” – Niccolo Machiavelli
“He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.” – Niccolo Machiavelli
“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other …
“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man …
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead
“I do not fear failure. I only fear the “slowing up” of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, “Keep going, someone must …
“I’m tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.” – Madonna
“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 …
“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 …
“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 …
“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, …
“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 …
“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