(491 quotes found)
“Ambition is the last refuge of failure.”
Oscar Wilde
“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.”
Bill Bradley
“You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“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
“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 who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”
Madonna
“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
“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
“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 be on top, why not you?"”
General George S. Patton
“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
