1,853 Quotes About Ambition

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it.... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

Be something! That's the inscription written over the gates of hell.

Resistance is a sign that shows you're going the right way

He had little respect for anyone who was not willing to put in the effort required to survive and thrive. Not everyone needed the same driving ambition that had fueled him. That had led him to being possibly the richest man in London without a title in his lineage -- all earned in under a decade. That had given him the power to change lives. But a person needed to have the drive to change his own life.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Ambition is greed without makeup.

We had made the error of staying small – and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.

Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called human beings preoccupied.

Only survival and true ambition makes one confront their own fears.”