ambition Quotes

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”

― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

topic:desire want ambition

“his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.”

― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

topic:dreams ambition

“I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

topic:pride ambition

“those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

topic:power ambition

“I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“It ought to be the employer's ambition, as leader, to pay better wages than any similar line of business, and it ought to be the workman's ambition to make this possible.”

― Henry Ford, My Life and Work

topic:leadership ambition

“in the long run . . . success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.”

― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

topic:success ambition

“Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels. How can man then, the image of his Maker, hope to win by it?”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

topic:sin ambition

“We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise any one who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking...”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

topic:poverty ambition

“For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world...”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:youth ambition

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