Quotes about Ambition
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.
— Samuel Johnson
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
— Samuel Johnson
Nothing honors God more than a Big Dream that is way beyond our ability to accomplish!
— Mark Batterson
To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.
— James A. Garfield
A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
— John Keats
Hope is a waking dream.
— Aristotle
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
— Cicero
Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.
— John Wooden
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.
— John Milton
I'll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working.
— Ashton Kutcher
I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind.
— James Madison
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
— Oscar Wilde