1,853 Quotes About Ambition

If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant; that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.

Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude; and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place; and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.

I'm supporting the School for Creative Startups because the project's ambition - to boost innovation and the culture of entrepreneurship - is something I feel strongly about.

I don't have any ambition.

With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.

It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.

You can't have a discussion about Israel and the region without including Iran and their nuclear ambitions.

My fear is that in lowering expectations for Hong Kong, we will cause the overall ambition for the round to fall.

The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.