Top Ambition Quotes
As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
Lynn Davies
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Milan Kundera
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Shakti Gawain
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 incentive to ambition is the love of power.
William Hazlitt
Alva Myrdal 
J. M. Barrie 
Ambrose Bierce 
Wilson Mizner 
Anjelica Huston All Ambition Quotes
My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.
Graham Norton 
57% of people like this quote
A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
Wilson Mizner
57% of people like this quote
My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
Philip Levine
57% of people like this quote
Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
Robert Browning
56% of people like this quote
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
Anthony Trollope
56% of people like this quote
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
56% of people like this quote
Popular Ambition Authors
Francois de La RochefoucauldFriedrich NietzscheMason CooleyWilliam ShakespeareOscar WildeSamuel JohnsonLucius Annaeus SenecaThomas JeffersonAmbrose BierceBenjamin DisraeliThomas CarlyleOrison Swett MardenAbraham LincolnWilliam HazlittAlexander Pope
John RuskinMichel de MontaigneAldous HuxleyBarack ObamaNapoleon BonaparteEmile M. CioranEdmund BurkeGeorge W. BushLao TzuFranklin D. RooseveltSamuel RichardsonHenry Wadsworth LongfellowCharles BaudelaireBryant H. McGillPierre Corneille
More »