Ambition Quotes And Sayings

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“You shouldn’t do that,” said Laura. “You could set yourself on fire.” 
– Margaret Atwood

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” 
– Marilyn Monroe

“I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.” 
– Marilyn Monroe

“Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.” 
– Marty Rubin

“Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.” 
– Mary Shelley

“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.” 
– Maya Angelou

“I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.” 
– Michael J. Fox

“Ambition is not a vice of little people.”
– Michel De Montaigne 

“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

“I’d rather be partly great than entirely useless.” 
– Neal Shusterman

“Grab it while you can because tomorrow could suck you dry.” 
– Nora Roberts

“Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.”
– Norman Macdonald

“With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.”
– Norman Macdonald

“Humanity does not ask to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it… Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, , but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.” 
– Orson Scott Card

“Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.” 
– Oscar Wilde

“Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.” 
– Oscar Wilde

“The map? I will first make it.” 
– Patrick White

“I really don’t have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.”
– Paul Ryan 

“People need not fear the unknown if they have a capable of achieving what they need and what” 
– Paulo Coelho

“The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed… They’re all inside me somewhere.”
– Philip Seymour Hoffman 

“Ambition displeases when it has been sated … having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.”
– Pierre Corneille

“The biggest changes in a women’s nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition” 
– Rabindranath Tagore

“Hitch your wagon to a star.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.” 
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.” 
– Robert Frost

“To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious.” 
– Roman Payne

“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.” 
– Salvador Dalí

“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.” 
– Salvador Dalí

“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.”
– Salvador Dali 

“A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.”
– Samuel Johnson 

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