1,853 Quotes About Ambition

I have remained resentful to this day When any but myself presumed to say That there was anything I couldn't be.

The image of all the cars leaving pastel-colored people at the same time has never really left me as an anti-ambition for life!

As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I shuttle between worrying whether I matter at all and whether anything else matters but me.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability

It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.

We all wind up the same way, no matter what our goals or ambitions are. We have nothing at all to say about how we got into this world or how are going to leave it.

My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.