Top 77 Ambition Inspirational Quotes
#3. To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetrate the mysteries of these awful regions predominates even over my despair, and will reconcile me to the most hideous aspect of death.
Edgar Allan Poe
#4. I have no ambition to change my nature, I merely intend to conquer my dislikes.
Georges Bernanos
#5. Premature satisfaction with half-success is a dream-killer of ambition , nobody should indulge in it.
Osunsakin Adewale
#6. Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight
Elvis Presley
#8. The drive, the ambition, the art; it all comes to me when I close my eyes and think about the sacrifices my Mom made for me.
Forrest Curran
#9. And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history - money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery - the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
C.S. Lewis
#10. Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil with all our strength to obtain them, since we may if we wish.
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
#11. The true cost of following your dreams isn't what you sacrifice when you chase them, it's what you lose when you don't
Simon S. Tam
#12. Do not allow the voice of self doubt and fear to play louder than voice that helped create the ambition in the first place.
Emeka Egbuonu
#13. Spending time with people without ambition is a self-destruction.
Amen Muffler
#14. The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.
Laozi
#15. We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.
Amah Lambert
#16. Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage?
Geraldine Brooks
#17. To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being."- Biologist John Lubbock.
John Lubbock
#18. Anyone with great ambition, great vision, and great passion can be a great person.
Debasish Mridha
#20. For he, who has never sailed through storms, can never trust sailors of such ships.
Ashish Jaiswal
#21. Besides(..), it's a poor woman whose ambition is only to be loved.
Sarah Perry
#22. The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
Maya Angelou
#23. Motivation fades because it's emotion driven. Mobilization doesn't fade because it's ambition driven. Connect with your passion! - L. R. W. Lee
L.R.W. Lee
#24. All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.
Harrison Ford
#25. As long as we have children seeking unrealistic dreams, anything is possible.
H.S. Crow
#26. Keep your standards even when everyone around you is losing theirs.
Habeeb Akande
#28. If you are not working towards something, your life will end with nothing.
Habeeb Akande
#30. One must have ambition and one must understand the minds ... of men.
Dhirubhai Ambani
#31. Follow your star, it's never too late, even if it doesn't quite happen as you expect.
Jemima Pett
#32. Secret of my success was to have ambition and know minds of men.
Dhirubhai Ambani
#33. My most important inspirational job that I do is raising those kids. That's my job. And that's where my ambition goes. But I have a life. I'm not only their mother. I'm still who I was before, I just don't get to be it all the time.
Pat Benatar
#35. Success is working with enthusiasm and ambition, living with joy and kindness, and going toward a life of ultimate service and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#37. Forget that blind ambition, and learn to trust your intuition.
Jimmy Buffett
#38. They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.
Mark Twain
#39. The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for.
Habeeb Akande
#40. You cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. The real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.
Sonia Sotomayor
#42. Stay hungry on the path you trod to overcome all odds though fate & the gods seem to pepper your plate with a barrage of sabotage.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
#43. To live in an evolutionary spirit means to engage with full ambition and without any reserve in the structure of the present, and yet to let go and flow into a new structure when the right time has come.
Erich Jantsch
#45. Relax your fears, let your ambition take the wheel for a while; it'll take you somewhere exciting that you've never been.
Noel DeJesus
#49. Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.
Frank Tyger
#50. Great ambition without contribution is without significance.
The Emperor's Club
Steve William Laible
#51. An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.
Brian Tracy
#52. Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
John Lubbock
#53. Without a vision to guide our path, and without ambition that knows no limits, we can never build a bright future for generations to come.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#54. I am ambitious. I set goals; not because I am ungrateful for what I have, but because I am happy with who I am. I enjoy the experience of rising above my perceived limitations and discovering new levels of my capabilities.
Steve Maraboli
#55. As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I shuttle between worrying whether I matter at all and whether anything else matters but me.
Stephen Fry
#56. Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone.
Who had nothing, who wanted everything.
Lana Del Rey
#57. Employing your imagination is the first step to the fulfillment of any dream.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#58. You may delay your ambition, but never forget your ambition.
Amit Kalantri
#59. Without ambition, no goal can be met.
Kya Aliana
#60. If you've ever been hungry, you can never be full.
Dwayne Johnson
#62. Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition.
Coolio
#63. Given courage and ability and a favorable set of circumstances, there is no greater way to [acquire] influence than to be free of personal ambition.
Lorena A. Hickok
#64. Beware of opportunities that are inspired by inordinate ambition or greed and not God-inspired. They are road blocks and distractions on your way to godly fulfillments
Ikechukwu Joseph
#65. Perhaps it was all just another game that I can't win, I thought. Heartbreak, a meaningful career, a dead-end ambition. I can't win. I think it was at that moment that I was released.
M.K. Williams
#66. If a man wants his dreams to come true he must wake up.
Habeeb Akande
#67. You will never know how high you can climb until you reach the top.
K.L. Toth
#68. You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire.
Margaret Atwood
#69. As she sustained wound after wound ... the fairy should have fallen, but instead, she danced. This was Titania, the Fairy Queen.
Hiro Mashima
#70. Without drive you will never get anywhere in life.
Habeeb Akande
#71. Ambition is the driving engine behind every great success.
Debasish Mridha
#72. I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.
Louis L'Amour
#73. When someone comes to you with big dreams, don't be too quick to belittle their ambition and dreams. Inspire and help them in any way you can. Even the beautiful butterfly was once a caterpillar.
Rita Zahara
#74. The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.
Criss Jami
#75. If you cannot do great things in life, make sure you do the small things in a great way.
Habeeb Akande
#76. To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court
Philip Sidney
#77. Every man has an ambition. Let it be a good one. Just drive toward it with enthusiasm.
Debasish Mridha
