1,853 Quotes About Ambition

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Let the pushers and the grabbers climb their ladders, I'll stay here dancing on the ground.

Don't allow your longings to stop you from laughing, loving and living.

Climbing ladders is wasting time you could be dancing on the ground.

Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent,more perfect than all that a man can invent.

I’ve decided the act that cannot wait / is the important will to create / But, ah, if my belly is ignored / the pantry door I shall implore / But I’ve been known to reach the bed / ideas still famished in my head.

The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. ”― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

I am not in favor of those who profess the idea that dreams have got meanings in them. One thing I could assure is that they bring out a mysterious artist in every human being, a befuddled artist with nebulous notions.

It should be the ambition of every true artist to transform wounds and traumas into masterpieces.