Quotes about Ambition
What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.
— St. Augustine
I think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from the building.
— Madeleine Albright
The height of your success is determined by the depth of your belief.
— Zig Ziglar
Success is an intoxicant, and intoxicated people seldom have a firm grasp on reality.
— Andy Stanley
Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.
— Zig Ziglar
Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
— Sheryl Sandberg
Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?
— Albert Camus
The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.
— John Wooden
Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
— Publilius Syrus
The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal. That's the person who says, 'I'm going to become this' and then begins to work toward that goal
— Earl Nightingale
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
— Graham Greene
Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.
— Confucius