1,853 Quotes About Ambition

Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood; the highest, envy.

If the Library of Alexandria was the emblem of our ambition of omniscience, the Web is the emblem of our ambition of omnipresence; the library that contained everything has become the library that contains anything.

You've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something. Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

What I have in me... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is. It's a drive [for success], but it's not a drive...it's being driven, it's something I have no control over. It's something pushing me, I'm not pushing myself.

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.

The ambition of the mayor to get into the heart of the community is quite laudable. However, shutting off streets will do the exact opposite. If you have no way to get to Main Plaza, you have no reason to go there.

All women are ambitious naturallie