Welcome to our collection of Ambition Quotes! Ambition is a driving force that propels individuals to reach for their dreams and aspirations, motivating them to push beyond their limits and achieve greatness. Whether you’re seeking inspiration to fuel your own ambitions or simply looking for thought-provoking quotes to share and reflect upon, you’ve come to the right place. In this compilation, we have gathered a diverse selection of quotes that delve into the concept of ambition from various perspectives, offering wisdom, insight, and encouragement to all those who dare to dream big and strive for excellence. Scroll down to find a wealth of inspirational quotes on ambition, and feel free to use them for your personal projects, be it sharing them on social media, creating inspiring images, or adding stylish fonts to enhance their impact.
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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. Carl von Clausewitz
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Helen Keller
Accidents on big mountains happen when people’s ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride. Bear Grylls
A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions. Marcus Aurelius
Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others. Alexander Hamilton
Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope – and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future. Bob Riley
Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures. Bryant H. McGill
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. Barack Obama
Ambition can creep as well as soar. Edmund Burke
I’m going to let love lead the way, always. And I was born with this blind – blind ambition, and it’s kind of gotten me here to this point. And I think that I’ll stick to it. Katy Perry
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. Milan Kundera
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
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition. Sigmund Freud
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. Fergus Henderson
I have many years to get better and better, and that has to be my ambition. The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player. Lionel Messi
Ambition never comes to an end. Kenneth Kaunda
Be a warrior when it comes to delivering on your ambitions. And a saint when it comes to treating people with respect, modeling generosity, and showing up with outright love. Robin S. Sharma
You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition. Michel Onfray
It was the only ambition I ever had – not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage. Doris Day
I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder. David Maraniss
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust. John Webster
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. Emil Cioran
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions. Sai Baba
Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. William Eardley IV
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there. Jim Henson
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. Walter Savage Landor
For reasons that are both fair and foul – but mostly for fair reasons – we have come under the domain of a scientific-management system whose ambitions are endless. They want to manage every second of our lives, every expenditure that we make. And the schools are the training ground to create a population that’s easy to manage. John Taylor Gatto
It has been a long journey, but if you dream and have the ambition and want to work hard, then you can achieve. Mo Farah
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition. Riccardo Muti
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. Eleanor Roosevelt
Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness. Mahatma Gandhi
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be. Bob Dylan
We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second, we must improve moral standards in government and society to provide a strong foundation for good governance. Third, we must change the character of our politics to promote fertile ground for reforms. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web. John McCarthy
The appellation of a Scottish Bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition. Robert Burns
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? Vincent Van Gogh
Nobody cares what anyone did last year, whether you were good, whether you were bad, everybody has ambitions and aspirations for this year. But it really doesn’t matter until you go out there and prove it and you go out there and do it. Jason McCourty
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. Bill Bradley
The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor. Willa Cather
Ambition – it is the last infirmity of noble minds. James M. Barrie
Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction – in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow. Heinrich Rohrer
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
I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth. Oliver Reed
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. Thomas Carlyle
An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. Michael Korda
Stupidity and human incompetence are the great evils, not ambition and glory. Robert Greene
I’ve been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn’t just a desperate quest for positions or money. It’s just love – lots of love. Janis Joplin
When ambition ends, happiness begins. Thomas Merton
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. Carl Sagan
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. H. G. Wells
Problems in our country haven’t been caused by Donald Trump, America and its ambitions or CIA spies. Our problems are rooted in a bad government system, the lack of free elections, independent courts and freedom of speech. Ksenia Sobchak
A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be. Steven Brust
We all need to work together, because there are no jobs on a dead planet; there is no equity without rights to decent work and social protection, no social justice without a shift in governance and ambition, and, ultimately, no peace for the peoples of the world without the guarantees of sustainability. Sharan Burrow
An actor should always let humility outweigh ambition. Anna Kendrick
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. Sallust
An interesting life could always use a little seduction, confidence, ambition, and danger. Jim Sarbh
Philly gave me my ambition and drive to get more. It’s a reminder to stay on top of my game. That’s not a place I want to go back to. Meek Mill
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. Thomas Jefferson
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 – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all. Bob Marley
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. Lao Tzu
I’m comfortably asocial – a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I’m not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive. Octavia E. Butler
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others. Niccolo Machiavelli
Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don’t, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition. Jeremy Clarkson
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. Baruch Spinoza
It’s good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work. Peter Thiel
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. Napoleon Bonaparte
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 a dream with a V8 engine. Elvis Presley
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust. Marquis de Sade
Time is the only critic without ambition. John Steinbeck
You should run your life not by the calendar but how you feel, and what you’re interests are and ambitions. John Glenn
My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly. Pancho Villa
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice. Georges Bizet
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power. Franklin D. Roosevelt
The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend. Katharine Hepburn
I think there’s no limit to ambition, and if you want something, you can make anything happen, so go for it. Rex Orange County
Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It’s an ego trip, and I’m not on an ego trip. I don’t have ambitions – I have a vision. Werner Herzog
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing. Shakti Gawain
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ‘coaches’ ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. Herbert Kaufman
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition. Adam Smith
Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought. Charles Spurgeon
What would rock and roll be without ambition, craziness, danger, and fun? Pete Wentz
I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in. Vivienne Westwood
The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born. Malala Yousafzai
It’s funny how getting older – or being overlooked and underrated for more than two decades – can make you change your ambitions. Reg E. Cathey
Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I’d make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that’s fine. But I don’t spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures. Alessandro Del Piero
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. Robert Burton
I didn’t have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies. Jodie Foster
Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along. Carroll Shelby
The ambition and focus that propel you to success can also be your downfall. Judy Smith
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I’m still my intractable old self, for better or worse. LeRoy Neiman
I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition. Jean-Francois Cope
I am so attracted to ambition and drive and talent. If a man loves something and can put his heart into it, I am instantly into him. I like a strong man who can be in control and make decisions but who is sensitive and attentive. That is the perfect combination. Meaghan Rath
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. Hosea Ballou
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions… Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity. Muhammad Iqbal
Ambition has developed into a passion which drives women, as well as men, to great works – and small deeds. Formerly competitors in the race for men, they are now competing in the race for social tasks and distinctions. Ellen Key
Achievement results from work realizing ambition. Adam Ant
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 so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed. Abraham Lincoln
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. Timothy Leary