Ambition Quotes

In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.

P. J. O'Rourke
- Modern
- Ideals
- Dear
When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.

Yash Chopra
- College
- Day
- Ambition

Without my mother's ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.

Sofia Villani Scicolone
- World
- Mother
- Doubt
An objective is an ambition, and life without ambition is ... well, aimless wandering.

Alfred Wainwright
' We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Marriage
- Ambition
'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
- Life
- Period
- Dreams
Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.

Rafe Spall
- People
- Life
- Important
Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who is able to recount the sources and issues thereof?

Nicolas Bouvier
- Wind
- Ambition
- Abyss