1,853 Quotes About Ambition

Most of all I don't want to be bored. That's why I'd rather do something that has some sort of ambition, that risks failing, rather than make safer, more comfortable choices.

Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls

No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.

Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection, since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious.

I like to build things, I like to do things. I am having a lot of fun .

Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.

The day may dawn when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth serene and triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair.

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.