Top 40 Ambition Quotes


Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Maya Angelou

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

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.Abraham Lin The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for.

Habeeb Akandecoln

Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.

Roy T. Bennett

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Napoleon Hill

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Salvador Dali

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.

Muhammad Iqbal

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Carl von Clausewitz


The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

Oliver Goldsmith

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.

Michael J. Fox

Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.

Criss Jami

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

Henry Miller

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

Marcus Aurelius

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

Publilius Syrus

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Oscar Wilde

When it comes to fighting for your dreams, be a dragon. Breathe fire.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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


Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.

Frank Tygero


Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.

Mark Twain

The trick in life (and sales) is to learn from everybody, even those with less credentials than you. It could mean the difference between being number two ... and being number One!

Reginald V. Johnson

Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities.

Frank Herbert

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

John D. Rockefeller

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Jonathan Swift

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

Robert Burton

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

Christopher Marlowe

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime . Not failure, but low aim is crime.

James Russell Lowell


As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

William Shakespeare


Don’t be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams.

Dwayne Johnson


The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition.

Rabindranath Tagore

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

Anthony Trollope

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.

Sir John Lubbock

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Michel de Montaigne

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

Alan Lightman

Ambition beats genius 99 percent of the time.

Jay Leno

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

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

Les Brown

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

Samuel Johnson

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