1,853 Quotes About Ambition

Almost everyone has an inborn need to create; in most people this is thwarted and forgotten, and the drive is pushed into other activities that are less threatening, less difficult, and less rewarding. In some people, that need to create is transmuted into the need to destroy.

And everyone assured him that he would never be a man until he learned how to drive. Indeed, the future was already dull and menacing with the ambitions other people entertained on his behalf.

When we reachedWhere we aspired to reach,The destination melted away.

It is a great force, and a great fortune, to be able to live without any ambition whatever. I aspire to it, but the very fact of so aspiring still participates in ambition.

A man's first duty, a young man's at any rate, is to be ambitious. Ambition is a noble passion which may legitimately take many forms but the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind one something of permanent value

two characteristics that certainly go hand in hand with being a hustler. If your game is tight, you get what you want, but once you do, you're automatically on the hunt for something bigger, something better.

Whatever one writes, the fact of its ambition or motive is, to become renowned and eminent.

In the vastness of the United States of America, the island nation Britain found the perfect vessel into which to pour its continental-sized hubris and ambition.

Am I still ambitious if I've failed?