Top 1200 High Ambition Quotes & Sayings

My ambition is to not embarrass myself--which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition.

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.

Any crusade requires optimism and the ambition to aim high

To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.

How to find joy? Let your ambition disappear; ambition is the barrier. Ambition means an ego trip: "I want to be this, I want to be that - more money, more power, more prestige."

We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition needs you to use others as a means.

I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.

You need just the right amount of ambition . . . If you have too little ambition, you don't push or work hard. If you have too much ambition, you put yourself ahead of others, elbow them out of your way.

A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.

Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.

My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition.

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

Don’t get depressed about not being where you want to be. This nagging feeling of anxiety is actually called ambition. Ambition is your friend.

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

Someone like Boris Johnson is reluctant to answer questions about ambition because then the story becomes all about his ambition. Sure, he's got ambition - that's no secret at all. But also, he's very strongly motivated to try to get the kind of Brexit he believes in.

My ambition in the cinema, since I came across it, was to play Chance... I have realized that ambition, and so I have no more.

I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

Musically, I have little ambition. The only real ambition I have is to make music and do music whenever I feel like it, without any real ambition or planning.

'Intensity' is a good word. It's like ambition, if it's not ambition at expense of someone else.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

Do you know what my ambition is in life? To be without ambition. As far back as I can remember I've been absolutely hag-ridden. I'd like to attain the state of mind that the Indians call Nirvana. That, for me, would happen if I were free of ambition.

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

I don't know many ambition- ridden people who really enjoy themselves. Even success doesn't seem to still the insatiable, gnawing hunger of their ambition. Ambition is a good gift, but it cannot be all.

The philosophy I shared... was one of ambition - ambition to succeed, ambition to grow, ambition to move forward - backed up by hard work.

Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

I am actuated by an ambition which I believe to be an honourable one ? the ambition of serving the great cause of truth, while endeavouring to forward the literature of the country.

The whole society depends on creating ambition in you. Ambition means a conflict, ambition means that whatsoever you are, you are wrong - you have to be somewhere else. Wherever you are, you are wrong - you have to be somewhere else. A constant madness to be somewhere else, to be somebody else, is what ambition is.

Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred and fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence.

The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.

With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.

Each child is poisoned by the society through teaching him ambition. Ambition is a poison far more dangerous than any alcohol can ever be, far more dangerous than marijuana or LSD, because ambition destroys your whole life. It keeps you moving in a false direction. It keeps you imagining, desiring, dreaming, it keeps you wasting your life. Ambition means a subtle creation of the ego, and once the ego is created you are in the grip of darkness. And the whole social structure depends on ambition.

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.

The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.

Many people wants to be the president...they have ambition. Just ambition is not enough.

The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.

An objective is an ambition, and life without ambition is ... well, aimless wandering.

My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.

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

Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above ambition, the other below it.

Reach your ambition as high as the skies! Dream it as high as the skies! Because if you're fell, you're gonna fall among of the stars!!

I am there to entertain. I call my work high escape fiction; it's high, it's good - but it's escape, and I have no delusions about that. I have no ambition to be a serious writer, whatever that means.

Ambition devours gold and drinks blood and climbs so high by other men's heads, that at the length in the fall, it breaks its own neck; therefore, it is better to live in humble content than in high care and trouble.

There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a vicious mind: in a virtuous mind it is a virtue, and will be found to take its color from the character in which it is mixed. Ambition is a desire of superiority; and a man may become superior, either by making others less or himself greater.

Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.

To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.

Laziness is the road to progress, but only when it is allied to intelligent thought and high ambition.

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.

What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them.

Who's more likely to succeed - someone with high skill and no ambition, or no skill and high ambition? If you're an entrepreneur, you can hire as many skilled people for your business as you want.

If my ambition in Tottenham is only to win the Carabao Cup or FA Cup, with all the respect for that, I think my ambition does not match the ambition of a club like Tottenham.

Both parents worshiped individual achievement, but because of the Depression and the war, they never achieved what they wanted and deserved. So their ambition and high expectations were transferred to me.

Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer's voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing.

I have an ambition to live 300 years. I will not live 300 years. Maybe I will live one year more. But I have the ambition. Why you will not have ambition? Why? Have the greatest ambition possible. You want to be immortal? Fight to be immortal. Do it. You want to make the most fantastic art or movie? Try. If you fail, is not important. We need to try.