Home / Topics / Ambition Quotes

Ambition Quotes

Browse 3325 quotes about Ambition.

Ambition Quotes

“Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.”

Seems Enemy Class Impossible Ambition Prejudice Selfish Making Money Despised Grabbing Impossible Love Selfish Ambition

Book:In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan

Source: In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan

“You want to be free and break new ground, speak your mind, fear no man, have the neighbours acknowledge that you're a good man; and at the same time you want to be a success, make money, join the country club, get the votes and kick the other man in the teeth and off the ladder.”

Source: I'm Dying Laughing: The Humourist

“All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.”

Way Needs Writing Children Wanted Ambition Making Money Prose Modest My Ambition Unmarried

Author:Paul Auster

“I don't have any great ambition to go out and make money. But I am still fascinated in starting up businesses and starting it in a way and running in a way that I want to do it.”

Way Want Stills Running Ambition Starting Making Money Fascinated Great Ambition Starting Up

Author:Michael Birch

“We all go through stages. Concerns about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and noticed and trying to establish yourself, all fade as your responsibilities and character grow.”

Trying Character Grows Responsibility Stage Ambition Concern Strive Appearance Impression Making Money Compare Fades Being Popular Comparing Yourself Comparing Yourself To Others

Author:Stephen Covey

“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.”

Littles Shows Purpose Asks Wealth Money Poverty Focus Ambition Making Money Bucks Little Money Makin Money

Author:Barack Obama

“We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition”

Ifs Doe Political Order Politics Poor Poverty Streets Ambition Making Money Despise Lacking Simplify Inner Life Ending Poverty

Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.”

Men Desire Causes Truth Is Ambition Injustice Making Money Deliberate

Author:Aristotle

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

Goal Money Attitude Ambition Fortune Mere Medical Making Money My Ambition Goals And Ambitions

Book:John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth

Source: John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth

“My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.”

Beautiful Ambition Making Money Encounters My Ambition

Author:Juliette Binoche

“If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.”

People Ifs Men Trying Wells Hard Money Hard Work Fool Ambition Mad Making Money Capitalist Playboy Parasites Life Time

Author:Vic Oliver

“The goal is to win. It's not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this (buying Chelsea football club). I don't want to throw my money away, but it's really about having fun and that means success and trophies.”