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Quotes About Ambition

There is no limit to what you want to become, even if its everyone's dream
~ Sir Hector-Louis Langevin
One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success.
~ Sir James Matthew Barrie
The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.
~ Sir Richard Francis Burton
People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.
~ Sir Richard Steele
O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the farstretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet!
~ Sir Walter Ralegh
Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
~ Sir Walter Ralegh
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.
~ Sir Walter Scott
Tis plain that there is not in nature a point of stability to be found: everything either ascends or declines. When wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home, and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.
~ Sir Walter Scott
When I was a lad I served a termAs office boy to an Attorney's firm.I cleaned the windows and I swept the floorAnd I polished up the handle of the big front door.I polished up that handle so carefulleeThat now I am the Ruler of the Queen's Navee!
~ Sir William S. Gilbert
When I went to the Bar as a very young man(Said I to myself, said I).
~ Sir William S. Gilbert
New York City is the place where people come to invent, reinvent, or find the room they need to be who they wish to be.
~ Siri Hustvedt
I love everything about entrepreneurship and about owning your career and doing what you love to do.
~ Tamera Mowry
I love big budgeted, epic rock landscapes. That's what turns me on.
~ Melissa Auf der Maur
I love doing a lot of things I'm told I can't do. I think that's what drives me and keeps me awake every day.
~ Patrick Soon-Shiong
I would love to have a race against Usain Bolt one day! It would certainly be a good challenge for me.
~ Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Since I was a kid, I've wanted to do sports for a living. In the beginning, I played a lot of soccer, but in the end I chose tennis. I love sports in general ... But tennis is my passion.
~ Rafael Nadal
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.
~ Rajneesh
If you absolutely love it more than anything in the world, don't give up. You gotta keep working hard because it's a lot tougher than it looks.
~ Riker Lynch
I love people, and the hustle.
~ Gary Vaynerchuk
I want us to have it all, love and career. It's a struggle sometime to achieve that, but I love the struggle.
~ Gina Prince-Bythewood
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.
~ Henry Taylor
I just want to work hard. I love that feeling.
~ Jenny Slate
Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I would love to have a part opposite a great actor - like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to work with a top director. That's my dream.
~ Jon Lovitz