Life Without Ambition Quotes

#1. An objective is an ambition, and life without ambition is ... well, aimless wandering.

Alfred Wainwright

#2. Nick looked to the sky again, searching for a last glimpse of the shiny jet. 'For us, maybe, but courtesy of Nina and her reckless ambition Ellie Wilding will remember this day for the rest of her life.

Helene Young

#3. Love, desire, ambition, faith. Without them life's so simple, believe me.

Daniel Mainwaring

#4. My mind was not that of a conqueror, but that of a cow that spends its life chewing contentedly in the meadow of invoices, waiting for the train of eternal grace to pass by. How good it felt to exist without pride of ambition. To live in hibernation.

Amelie Nothomb

#5. He seemed unaware of what was going on, stared out without hope or ambition, without worry, developing a quality devoid of qualities to get him through this life.

Kiran Desai

#6. Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan.

Alexander Pope

#7. Do you know what my ambition is in life? To be without ambition. As far back as I can remember I've been absolutely hag-ridden. I'd like to attain the state of mind that the Indians call Nirvana. That, for me, would happen if I were free of ambition.

Tallulah Bankhead

#8. Live for each second without hesitation

Elton John

#9. Love should be your top priority, primary objective, and greatest ambition. Love is not a good part of your life; it's the most important part. The Bible says, Let love be your greatest aim.

Rick Warren

#10. Without ambition, no goal can be met.

Kya Aliana

#11. Without drive you will never get anywhere in life.

Habeeb Akande

#12. I'm a weak character, without guts or ambition. I caught the brass ring and it shocked me to find out it wasn't gold. A guy like me has one big moment in his life, one perfect swing on the high trapeze. Then he spends the rest of his time trying not to fall off the sidewalk into the gutter.

Raymond Chandler

#13. Great ambition without contribution is without significance.
The Emperor's Club

Steve William Laible

#14. His mother's favorite, he possessed the self-confidence that told him he would achieve something worth while in life, and the ambition to do so, though for long the direction this would take remained uncertain.

Ernest Jones

#15. I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.

Rebecca Wells

#16. Embrace the beauty of good moment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. The life which, if i were still a man with pride, honor, ambition and so forth, would seem like the bottom rung of degredation. It's a negative reality, just like death
a sort of heaven without the pain and terror of dying.

Henry Miller

#18. What's important is the ambition that results from our weakness.

Sharon Creech

#19. If you couldn't help harboring higher aspirations in life, you should at least harbor only simple desires, reduced in passion and ambition, as if you had been de-generized and now had only enough strength to be average.

Elif Shafak

#20. Only making a living is not living.

Krishna Saagar

#21. 'Titanic' made me want to tell stories ... To have all these characters and costumes and have ambition and think big and have dreams ... It came at a very troubled period of my life.

Xavier Dolan

#22. I'm beginning to think that life is about passing moments and small celebrations. Without them there's only pain, fear, ambition, and, for some of us, foolish hope.

Kyra Davis

#23. I was utterly without worldly ambition because I knew that all that was needed for a rich, full life was a few shillings a week with which to buy SF magazines and beer.

Bob Shaw