Quotes about Ambition

32 quotes about Ambition

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Quote by Theodore Roosevelt about ambition

Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.

Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.

Quote by Salvador Dali about ambition

The thinks are not hard to do. Hard is to be in the...

The thinks are not hard to do. Hard is to be in the neccesary mood to do them.

Quote by Constantin Brâncuși about ambition

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

Quote by Charles Babbage about ambition

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.

Quote by Pearl Bailey about ambition

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely...

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about ambition

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.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about ambition

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

Quote by George W. Bush about ambition

I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive - besides one can game ten...

Quote by George Gordon Byron about ambition

Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have...

Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about ambition

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.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about ambition

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.

Quote by Johnny Depp about ambition

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.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about ambition

My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not...

My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.

Quote by Anjelica Huston about ambition

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his...

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about ambition

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about ambition

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more...

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

Quote by Thomas Otway about ambition

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority...

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

Quote by Cesare Pavese about ambition

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, ...

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

Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli about ambition

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of taste.

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of taste.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about ambition

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