1,853 Quotes About Ambition

A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them.

If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.

It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again. aa

Live for each second without hesitation

I told myself that I was going to live the rest of my life as if it were Saturday.

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.