1,853 Quotes About Ambition

I hold visions to be wisdom, and would deny them only to ambition, which exists only by the destruction of visions of everybody else

We have to become everything that we want. Consume it.

Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees — he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder.

Be something. That's the inscription written over the gates of hell.

Good things come to those that actively pursue them, time only comes to those that wait

Success reveals how little ambition is worth.

With the tricks, you may get your ambition, but you are going to risk your trust and even your honour.

Why waste yourself doing something pointless, when you can spend your life being productive in your own eyes?

Who knows how easily ambition disguises itself under the name of a calling, possibly in good faith and deceiving itself, in sanctimonious confusion?