Explore the wonderful quotes under this tag
The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation.
Sep 10, 2025
Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.
If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers , and they value the contemplation and discovery of nature beyond all other pursuits.
I believe that no matter how many mistakes weve made; how badly weve really, really screwed up; how old, worn out, or dejected weve become; as long as there is true, steadfast ambition, all of us have an opportunity for greatness.
For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry- great. To have hopes, dreams- great.
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.
Ambition aspires to descend
Be realistic, demand the impossible!
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.
If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now.
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
Ambition is the death of thought.
Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.
We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition needs you to use others as a means.
Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
Ambition is the mind's immodesty.
Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Ambition is no cure for love!
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
Big results require big ambitions.
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
Ambition is only vanity ennobled.
Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.
The one governmental agency that has no ambition.
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.
I loved the excitement and the pleasures of life in New York, the opportunities for advancement, the pursuit of ambition, the theaters, the places of amusement, and such nights as the last I spent with you just as I was leaving for the West.
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.
To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
I have no ambition to shine beyond my abilities.
Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.