1,853 Quotes About Ambition

...You are a little boy. You want the moon to drink from as a golden cup; and so, it is very likely that you will become a great man -- if only you remain a little child. All the world'sgreat have been little boys who wanted the moon; running and climbing, they sometimes catch a firefly. But if one grow to a man's mind, that mind must see that it cannot have the moon and would not want it if it could -- and so, it catches no fireflies.' [Merlin]

He knew what he was, what depths of depravity and cruelty he had plumbed, what ambitions drove him. He prided himself on knowing those things—but that didn’t mean he needed anyone else to see them as well.

I could see why [Candide] appealed to Charlotte Clingstone. It was a rejection of ambition, a blueprint for her small, perfect, human-scale restaurant-- a safe space set apart from the scrum of the world.

College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.

Very often ambition and entrepreneurial drive, in combination, beat brilliance.

I should hate her. I should punch her and scream at her until she never wants to see my face again. But as I stare up at her, I don’t see the monster, the one overtaken by ambition. I see the little girl that has had her own choices taken away a thousand times over. I see the little girl longing for everything that she has never had, safety and security.

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

Im loved for my ambition but hated for my success.

You have to choose your path.You have to decide what you wish to do.You are the only person that can determine your destiny.