1,853 Quotes About Ambition

This is the age of the specialist, and years ago Rollo had settled on his career. Even as a boy, hardly capable of connected thought, he had been convinced that his speciality, the one thing he could do really well, was to inherit money.

I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.

I want to be known as unknown.

This is a woman whose belly is filled with pride. She has been eating nothing but her own ambition for nearly thirty years.

Follow your star, it's never too late, even if it doesn't quite happen as you expect.

The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers - is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

I don't have the type of ambition that will make me do anything at any cost to get what I want. I don't want to be beholden to people. I don't want to open a shop with your money because I don't want to be indebted to you.""I'm your husband; it's our money.""Morally, legally, maybe yes, but in here," she put a hand to her head "and here," she lay the flat of her hand over her heart, "it's your money. You earned it or were given it way before you met me.

It is the age of ambition that proves the mettle of men