1,853 Quotes About Ambition

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

My only ambition is to grow as a musician.

Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation.

It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least such should be a painters ambition.

The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.

The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.

Imagination awakens ambition, then causes it to lose its way.

Aimless drifting also fulfills an intention.

The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.