1,853 Quotes About Ambition

There's that talent thing where I can score goals, and there's also that want and ambition to keep doing it and doing it and doing it. I've seen a lot of players do it for a year and then they rest on their laurels, but I've been very driven throughout my career. Without being the most talented, I think I've tried to make the most of it.

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.

Ambition and suspicion always go together.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Ambition beats genius 99% of the time

I've never been interested enough to have a career trajectory. I've never had any ambition or thought of what I should be doing or had any idea of what I'd like to do. Never. And still don't. And if something comes along, I say 'Fine.'

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.