1,853 Quotes About Ambition

They’re driven by ambition. I’m driven by you.

I consider ambition to be like an alluring fruit that once tasted cannot be left truncated like the Apple logo.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Ambition had never troubled me, so I decided to begin by watching life at my leisure for a few years, waiting until I finally felt tempted to find some circle of influence for myself.

We will appeal to the highest aspirations of people, not their basest instincts. We seek to make all people into Gods, no matter how retarded, deluded and dumb they may be at the moment. We will transform their consciousness. When we are finished, it won’t be Hegel and Nietzsche who are unknown amongst the masses, but the vacuous celebrities.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

If you think the reason you exist or go to school is just to satisfy your selfish ambitions, then you are of all men most miserable

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.