Everyone must have ambition in life, for without ambition life is utterly wasted. Having an ambition provides us with the destination we need to step ourselves in. It gives our life meaning, purpose, a sense of dignity and fulfillment. It fires up our inner desire to strive for best. Most importantly, it helps clarify our intentions so that we can keep ourselves focused on things that matters the most. Below I’ve collected some ambition quotes to remind you of the importance of having Ambition in Life.
- Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. Niccolo Machiavelli
- A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be. Steven Brust
- A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Pearl Bailey
- A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambition. Marcus Aurelius
- A wise men is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so excited that riches, office, fortune and favor cannot satisfy him.
- All ambition are lawful except those which climb pward upon the miseries and credulities of mankind. Joseph Conrad
- Ambition and fleas both jump high. Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition. TERRY JOSEPHSON
- Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. Oscar Wilde
- Ambition without knowledge is like a boat on dry river. Anonymous
- The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. Sir Henry Taylor
- Ambition is the mind’s immodesty. Sir William D’Avenant
- Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. Lao Tzu
- Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. John Denham
- Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose. Frank Tyger
- Ambition is an idol on whose wings great minds are carried to extremes, to be sublimely great, or to be nothing Thomas Southern
- Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. Joseph Joubert
- Ambition aspires to descend. Pierre Cornelle
- Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of babylonish captivity. Martin Luther
- Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. Sallust
- As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him. William Shakespeare
- Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. Bill Bradley
- Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast another ready on the tongue.
- Ambition is a good servant but a bad master. Unknown
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