- A man with too much ambition cannot sleep in peace. ~ African Proverb
- After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer. ~ American Proverb
- Ambition — it is the last infirmity of noble minds. ~ Sir James. M Barrie
- Ambition and fleas jump high. ~ German Proverb
- Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds. ~ Goethe
- Ambition and revenge are always hungry. ~ Danish Proverb
- Ambition destroys its possessor. ~ Hebrew Proverb
- Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. ~ William Lilly
- Ambition if it feeds at all does so on the ambition of others. ~ Susan Sontag
- Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. ~ Charlie McCarthy
- Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue. ~ Quintilian
- Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. ~ Buddha
- Ambition is not what man does… but what man would do. ~ Robert Browning
- Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
- Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. ~ Thomas Dunn English
- Ambition is the last infirmity of noble minds. ~ James Matthew Barrie
- Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. ~ Bill Bradley
- Ambition never comes to an end. ~ Yoshida Kenko
- At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. ~ Salvador Dali
- Big results require big ambitions. ~ James Champy
- Do not let big ambitions overshadow small successes. ~ Ambition quotes.
- Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. ~ Abraham Lincoln
- 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
- He, who opens his heart for ambition, closes it for the rest. ~ Chinese Proverb
- I do not fear failure. I only fear the “slowing up” of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, “Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you? ~ General George S.
- I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.~ James R.Cook
- 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
- I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die. ~ Clare Boothe Luce
- I shall strike the stars with my uplifted head. ~ Horace
- I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know. ~ Frank Sinatra
- If ambition doesn’t hurt you, you haven’t got it. ~ Kathleen Norris
- If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now. ~ Mildred McAfee
- If you want to go up in the world, veil ambition with the forms of humanity. ~ Chinese Proverb
- If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. ~ Publilius Syrus
- Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. ~ C. Archie Danielson
- It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
- Meanness looks through one eye only, ambition is blind. ~ Russian Proverb
- My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special. ~ Sugar Ray Leonard
- Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. ~ Thomas Jefferson
- The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. ~ Herbert N. Casson
- The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. ~ Carl Edward Sagan
- The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. ~ William Shakespeare
- Think. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment. ~ Thomas J. Watson
- Time is the only critic without ambition. ~ John Steinbeck
- To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being. ~ Sir John Lubbock
- To feed the ambition in your heart is like carrying a tiger under your arm. ~ Chinese Proverb
- To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- We grow small trying to be great. ~ Eli Stanley Jones
- When ambition ends, happiness begins. ~ Hungarian Proverb
- When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success. ~ Cullen Hightower
- Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. ~ Timothy Leary
