Home / Topics / Ambition Quotes

Ambition Quotes

Browse 3325 quotes about Ambition.

Ambition Quotes

“The people who lived behind those clean lace curtains in row after row of identical boxes were newspaper readers, and every word in at any rate my newspaper must be clear and comprehensible to them, must be interesting to them, must encourage them to break away from littleness, stimulate their ambition, help them to want to build a better land.”

People Want Helping Interesting Behinds Break Clear Land Reader Ambition Clean Rate Boxes Newspapers Curtains Identical Lace

Author:Arthur Christiansen

“Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.”

Way Mean Growth Behinds Creative Democracy Essentials Ambition Ideals Democratic Notion Impulse Initiative Vitality Standardization Democratic Ideals

Author:Ida Tarbell

“Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude; and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place; and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.”

Mind Behinds Arms Solitude Ambition Glory Intention Crowds Legs Contrary Engaged Repose Inconsistent Arms And Legs

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it.”

Enjoy Love Is Behinds Ambition Musician Actresses Intense Enjoyed Get Better

Author:Lauryn Hill

“Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.”

Life Names Behinds Wind Kings Ambition Vain Trophies

Author:John Webster

“I'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine.”

Trying Two Bigs Three Next Behinds Generations Influence Mines Ambition Next Generation Three Generations

Author:James Frey

“So Disney has their full support behind it, which is great, but again it's got to be the right story. It's got to be a script that's up to snuff and worth going back for. The idea's there, the ambition's there, the excitement's there; but we need to have all the pieces in place before they would ever pull the trigger on that.”

Needs Ideas Stories Behinds Support Pieces Ambition Scripts Excitement Triggers Snuff

Author:Joseph Kosinski

“Behind my work was ambition, behind my love was personality, behind my purity was fear, behind my guidance the thirst for power. Now they are vanishing and I drift. I come, Mother, I come, in Thy warm bosom, floating wheresoever Thou takest me, in the voiceless, in the strange, in the wonderland, I come - a spectator, no more an actor.”

Mother Actors Behinds Strange Personality Ambition Warm Guidance Purity Thirst Floating Spectators Bosoms Wonderland Vanishing Voiceless Thirst For Power

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.”

Looks Evil Behinds Quality Ambition Constant Faults Inseparable My Ambition

Author:Seneca the Younger

“WE NEED MORE OF THOSE AND IF YOU STILL HATE THE WORD, IT IS NOT THE WORD THAT IS IMPORTANT. IT'S THE IDEA AND THE AMBITION BEHIND IT.”

Ifs Needs Stills Important Ideas Motivational Hate Behinds Ambition Gender Gender Equality

Author:Emma Watson