1,853 Quotes About Ambition

I am well aware of how I distract myself from the mundanity of life.

Ambitions are like assholes, and they smell like flowers to the owner. I must be delusional. Give it up.

Soar to heights where you may view the world from a new perspective.

No matter where life takes you or however busy it gets... Never forget to live.

Because, honey," she said, "after you've been to the moon, where else is there to go?

Say 'no' to the naysayers!

When you make up your mind that you want to be Great, you have to learn about the Great people of the past, the Great people who changed the world, and the Great people of each respective category of absolutely everything you can think of. You have to saturate your mind in greatness. You literally have to get a degree in it. Greatness is a journey into those who have come before you. ‪

I scold the worries away. As Ma likes to say, you cannot control the wind, but you can control your sails.

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice . . . . Truth breaks free, science is popularized, and religion totters; soon it will fall, in the course of centuries--that is, tomorrow. . . . In good time we shall only have to deal with reason.[From Bizet, by William Dean. Colier Books, 1962]