Ambition Quotes

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

The great ambition of women is to inspire love.[La grande ambition des femmes est d’inspirer de l’amour.]

We have made a virtue of moderation that we may limit the ambitions of the great and may console the mediocre for their want of fortune or ability.[On a fait une vertu de la modération pour borner l’ambition des grands hommes, et pour consoler les gens médiocres de leur peu de fortune, et de leur peu de mérite.]

We are no longer ambitious for ourselves, but are rather inspired by the vision of a healed world.

To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.[Pour s’établir dans le monde, on fait tout ce que l’on peut pour y paraître établi.]

To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition!

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

The most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

Power is the goal of all ambition.