Ambition Quotes

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

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead.
- Pearl Bailey

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
- William Somerset Maugham

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
- David Starr Jordan

When ambition ends, happiness begins.
- Thomas Merton

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
- Marcus Aurelius

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
- Marcus Aurelius

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
- Vauvenargues

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, Is in a prince the virtue (The Bashful Lover).
- Philip Massinger