Quotes about Ambition
We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.
— Aristotle
Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.
— CS Lewis
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
— Michelangelo
The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.
— St. Augustine
All envy is proportionate to desire.
— Samuel Johnson
The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.
— Ayn Rand
Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.
— Napoleon Hill
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as you dominant aspiration.
— James Allen
Work without vision is drudgery. Vision without work is dreaming. Work coupled with vision is destiny.
— Thomas Monson
We never conceive the greatness of our fates.
— Henry David Thoreau
The closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomes his true reason for being.
— Paulo Coelho