(491 quotes found)
“I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“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 - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.”
Bob Marley
“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
“He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.”
“Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ''coaches'' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.”
Herbert Kaufman
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
C.S. Lewis
“The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.”
Robert Burton
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
Salvador Dalí
