1,853 Quotes About Ambition

My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of thinking in biomedical research.

should reflect with courage and ambition a growing demand regarding this issue by the international community.

Right now, I feel like I can take on the world. Ambition is the perfect word for where I am in my life right now.

Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?

What I look for in a guy is passion and ambition and there's nothing sexier than intellect, so hopefully that would be reciprocated.

Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all, should thus outwit ourselves, and eternally forego our purposes in the intemperate act of pursuing them.

When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.

Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.

What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.