1,853 Quotes About Ambition

As you know, when an American sees another driving a Cadillac, he says to himself: 'One day I too will drive a Cadillac.' But when a Frenchman feels intimidated by someone else’s car, he says: 'Why can’t the bum drive a jalopy, like everyone else?

I wasn't born with a way to get it, like my brothers. I was waiting for my opportunity and somehow I knew it would come.

My goal is to create a life I don't need a vacation from.

We are never satisfied with having done well, and In endeavoring to do better, do much worse.

I think madness had hidden there, in that extreme but also tiny ambition, like swallowing a centipede tossed in the salad.

Dreams keep you awake when others are asleep. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

It won't do to be too ambitious.

You have ambition, Tané. Never apologise for that.

The thought of being something didn't only appall me, it sickened me. The thought of being a lawyer or a councilman or an engineer, anything like that, seemed impossible to me. To get married, to have children, to get trapped in the family structure. To go someplace to work every day and to return. It was impossible. To do things, simple things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day. . . was a man born just to endure those things and then die?