1,853 Quotes About Ambition

Ambition is the capacity for unhappiness.

There is far more happiness in a life that is your own than a life in which you are handed the lines to say and shown the gestures to make. Do not ever be ambitious.

Without drive you will never get anywhere in life.

You don’t come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn’t a strong aspect of your personality. 'A reality shaped around your own desires' — there is something sociopathic in that ambition.

A place in the sun, that's what I am aiming for... and who could ever ask for more?' -Columbine to Pierrot

Menaphon:Your Majestie shall shortly have your wish,And ride in triumph through Persepolis.Tamburlaine:And ride in triumph through Persepolis?Is it not brave to be a King, Techelles?Usumcasane and Theridamas,Is it not passing brave to be a King,And ride in triumph through Persepolis?

...one person's dreams can become another's baggage.

Ask a woman if she’s ambitious and she’ll look at you as if you just asked whether she sticks pins in puppies for fun. Ask a woman if she’s competitive and she’ll look at you as if you suggested that she’s a hooker.

You are always a bishop with a ambition and second as a fisher.