1,853 Quotes About Ambition

I want to make big films. That's always been my ambition.

Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

I wish I had a little more ambition. But then what would I do? Turn down more roles with more vehemence? Me no likey worky.

As in nature, things move violently to their place and calmly in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm.

Your honors here may serve you for a time, as it were for an hour, but they will be of no use to you beyond this world. Nobody will have heard a word of your honors in the other life. Your glory, your shame, your ambitions, and all the treasures for which you push hard and sacrifice much will be like wreaths of smoke. For these things, which you mostly seek, and for which you spend your life only tarry with you while you are on this side of the flood.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.

I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to transition in, so that's a decade of my life where I pursued my own ambitions and I thought it was time to rearrange my life to focus on other things.