Ambition Quotes And Sayings

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“A dream without ambition is like a car without gas… you’re not going anywhere.”
– Sean Hampto

“Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.”
– Shakti Gawain 

“Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn’t enough for me. Can you understand that?” 
– Sidney Sheldon

“The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.” 
– Stendhal

“Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do.” 
– Steve Jobs

“A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.”
– Steven Brust 

“Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.” 
– Steven Erikson

“Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.”
– Susan Sontag

“The future is what matters — because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present — like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot.” 
– Sylvia Plath

“Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.”
– T. S. Eliot

“It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.” 
– Theodore Roosevelt

“The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” 
– Theodore Roosevelt

“I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”
– Thomas Carlyle 

“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.”
– Thomas Jefferson 

‘Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
– Timothy Leary 

“Goals that are not written down are just wishes.”
– Unknown

“God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them.”
– Unknown

“The glorious fault of Angels and of Gods.”
– Unknown

“The best is the enemy of good.” 
– Voltaire

“Ambition is but Avarice on stilts and masked.”
– Walter Savage Landor

“Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be.” 
– William Clark

“The incentive to ambition is the love of power.”
– William Hazlitt 

“Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.”
– William Shakespeare 

“Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to “jump at de sun.” We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.”
– Zora Neale Hurston

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