1,853 Quotes About Ambition

I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.

If ever the adventure proves tiring, or you lose sight of your dream, look to the west at sunset. There, on days when the skies are clear, you might see upon the horizon a thin layer of amber mist. When it appears, you will know its purpose: it is the mist of believing.

The map? I will first make it.

He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

A man swallowed a bird every day but still couldn't fly.

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.

Mine is a quest, for a mouthful of skies.!

He had heard the voice of London that lives and breathes beneath the rumble of traffic, a voice like the continual high-pitched shriek you hear when you put your head beneath the waves of the sea. It is the sound of millions and millions of creatures living and struggling and dying and being born. It commands those who hear it to eat or be eaten..