1,853 Quotes About Ambition

(A girl's) chief ambition then, as now, was to get married and have a home and children.

Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies.

We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will survive me. It is not an ambition of immortality; it is fundamental. I leave here a bit of paper, I leave, I die; it is impossible to exit this structure; it is the unchanging form of my life. Every time I let something go, I live my death in writing.

Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you.

For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry-great. To have hopes, dreams-great.

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

But North Korea needs to make a strategic decision to set aside its ambition for nuclear weapons.