Ambition Quotes

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

Success, Experience, Character

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

Live, Black, Together

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

Life, Yourself, True

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
Barack Obama

Work, Nice, Live

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.
Abraham Lincoln

Great, Men, True

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas Jefferson

Virtue, Fit, Tools

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

Men, Office, Painful

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
William Shakespeare

Made, Stuff, Sterner

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

True, Progress, Ourselves

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar Wilde

Failure, Last, Refuge

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

Good, Great, Character

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde

Growth, Germ, Proceeds

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Cannot, Merit, Despicable

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

Her, She, Touch

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Book, Others, Whole

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Marcus Aurelius

Mean, Idea, Himself

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Marilyn Monroe

Women, Men, Equal

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Book, Else, Everyone

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.
Johnny Depp

Nothing, Thought, Insecure

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

Women, Men, Equal

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Aldous Huxley

Death, Knowledge, Human

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Men, Others, Another

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

Human, Perfect, Universe

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

American, Married, Film

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
Elvis Presley

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

Great, Die, Rather

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
Orison Swett Marden

Power, Alone, Strong

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

Great, Power, Him

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

Love, Blessings, Here

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