Ambition Quotes

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme - to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
- Shakti Gawain

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
- St. Francis de Sales

He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
- Chinese proverb

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find.
- John F. Kennedy

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
- William Hazlitt

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.
- Francis Bacon

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
- Bob Dylan

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet - clang of another's fame.
- Balthasar Gracian

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain.
- Kahlil Gibran

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
- Friedrich Nietzsche