1,853 Quotes About Ambition

The worst president is closer by nature to the best then either is to anyone who has not gone through what it requires to become president.

I’d be glad to go out on a limb with thoseWho want nothing beyond what the wind bestows,Were I not bound to roots, dug in deep to bearNever being done grasping for light and air

I know what other people think about me,” Rusty told her. “ ‘That Rusty,’ they say. ‘Charming and handsome,’ they say first, of course—they’re not blind. Then they add, ‘All the ambition and drive of a chocolate sundae.’

I believe we are powerful, but we don't use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want.

...you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. The real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.

Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known.

Only making a living is not living.

I know what you want. One month after the ascension of Philippe the Gullible, M. Laclos found in a gutter, deceased. Blamed on a traffic accident. Two months after, King Philippe found in a gutter, deceased— it really is a bad stretch of road. Philippe’s heirs and assigns having coincidentally expired, end of the monarchy, reign of M.Danton.

That's what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning to others.