1,853 Quotes About Ambition

Philosophy of mind is more important for success and happiness than ambition, education, or status.

Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?

Stay hungry on the path you trod to overcome all odds though fate & the gods seem to pepper your plate with a barrage of sabotage.

Never in England were there so many gentlemen and so little gentleness.

A warm sunny evening, the plash and gurgle of the waves in the rock pools, the rush of the cold gin. I thought for the first time of my novel, abandoned, all these years, and I came up, unprompted, with the perfect title. Octet. Octet by Logan Mountstuart. Perhaps I will surprise them all, yet.

Every man has an ambition. Let it be a good one. Just drive toward it with enthusiasm.

Popularity makes no sense If your fame is a shame.

You could wish for brighter moonlit skiesBut from a fair distance, they all look pretty much like mere streetlights.

Overambitious projects may be objectionable in many fields, but not in literature. Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement.