Ambition Quotes

Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair.'

Robert Francis Kennedy

The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.

John D. Rockefeller

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

John D. Rockefeller

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

John Lennon

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

Sir Walter Scott

No matter how good you get you can always get better and that's the exciting part.

Tiger Woods

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

C. Archie Danielson

Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.

Judith M. Bardwick

We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine: 'Imagine a man who sets out on a voyage equipped with a pair of spectacles that magnify things to an extraordinary degree. A hair on his hand, a spot on the tablecloth, the shifting fold of a coat, all will attract his attention; at this rate, he will not go far, he will spend his day taking six steps and will never get out of his room.' We have to get out of this room.

Robert Francis Kennedy

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

Sir John Denham

We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.

Anon.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Les Brown

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

Oliver Goldsmith

If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now.

Mildred Mcafee

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Charlie McCarthy

Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

James Barrie

There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others.

Jean de la Bruyere

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Edgar Quinet