1,853 Quotes About Ambition

I have heard many a young unmarried lady exclaim with a bold sweep of conception, “Ah me! I wish I were a widow!” Mrs. Keith was precisely the widow that young unmarried ladies wish to be. With her diamonds in her dressing-case and her carriage in her stable, and without a feather’s weight of encumbrance, she offered a finished example of satisfied ambition.

a man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much out of little, breathes power into weak instruments, disarms difficulties, and even turns them into assistances. Every condition has means of progress, if we have spirit enough to use them.

What you're saying," I clarify through clenched teeth, "is that call boys don't make it far in government.

... sometimes love becomes a power game between ambitions that parents have for their children and the ambitions that children have for themselves.

Richard, marked for misery and defeat, acknowledged that power which sentiment possesses to exalt us—to convince us that our minds, endowed with a soaring, restless aspiration, can find no repose on earth except in love.

The strange case of Billy Biswas had at last been disposed of. It had been disposed of in the only manner that a humdrum society knows of disposing its rebels, its seers, its true lovers.

Men of great ambition have sought happiness . . . and have found fame.

A day in a man’s life is constructed according to whether he accepts or rejects flashes of inspiration.

We have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further, trying to fly higher… and falling.