1,853 Quotes About Ambition

Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and ambition for both.

Today I am altogether without ambition. Where did I get such wisdom?

All my life I have been restless-- I have felt there is something more wonderful than gloss-- than wholeness-- than staying at home.

To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.

I've always been afraid of video games - not afraid that I wouldn't like them, but that I would like them too much, and that after mere seconds in front of any particularly bright and absorbing game, I would abandon all ambition, turn into a mouth-breathing zombie, and develop a wide, sofa-shaped rear end.

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.

I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!