ambition Quotes

“How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of nature!”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four

topic:nature ambition

“I didn't want to be anything anyhow. And I was certainly succeeding.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

topic:success ambition

“Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York; and all the clouds that lour'd upon our house in the deep bosom of the ocean buried.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard III

“But virtue's true reward is happiness itself, for which the virtuous work: whereas if they worked for honor, it would no longer be a virtue, but ambition.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

topic:happiness virtue ambition

“The Master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

topic:leadership ambition

“man is something that is to be surpassed.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

topic:man ambition

“people think I'm being modest, but it's quite the opposite: I'm thinking that I would do better today and so much better tomorrow.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, The Words

“Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I’ll sleep more easily by night.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

topic:enemy ambition

“It wasn't money or love that I was looking for. I had a heightened sense of awareness, was set in my ways, impractical and a visionary to boot.”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles

“I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.'”

― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

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