Ambition Quotes And Sayings

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“Ambition is the ecclesiastical lust.”
– Daniel Noonan

“We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It’s almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.” 
– Dave Eggers

“I came to New York to be a fine artist – that was my ambition.”
– David Byrne 

“Where ambition can be so happy as to cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of all human passions.”
– David Hume

“But it’s such a waste… You came to a place so near the sky but still can’t see the stars.” 
– Detective Conan

“People with ambition don’t give a damn what other people think of them.” 
– Diane Setterfield

“Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place we must find.”
– Dr. Wayne Dyer

“Ambition can creep as well as soar.”
– Edmund Burke

“Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.”
– Edward Dahlberg

“On what strange stuff ambition feeds!”
– Eliza Cook

“Live for each second without hesitation” 
– Elton John

“Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain’t nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight” 
– Elvis Presley

“Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.”
– Emile M. Cioran 

“Happiness is man’s greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.”
– Epicurus

“The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become ‘somebody,’ and frankly, I don’t have the least ambition to become anybody.” 
– Frida Kahlo

“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche 

“There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a vicious mind: in a virtuous mind it is a virtue, and will be found to take its color from the character in which it is mixed. Ambition is a desire of superiority; and a man may become superior, either by making others less or himself greater.”
– Fulke Greville

“Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above ambition, the other below it.”
– Fulke Greville

“It’s a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.” 
– Gentry Lee

‘Tis immortality to die aspiring.”
– George Chapman

“If a man does not work passionately – even furiously – at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.” 
– George Lois

“I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.”
– George W. Bush 

“Always strive to get to the top in life because its usually crowded at the bottom.” 
– Habeeb Akande

“The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be. “ 
– Haruki Murakami

“Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.”
– Harvey Mackay

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
– Helen Keller 

“Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm–it can creep, but it cannot fly.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

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