Life Ambition Quotes

My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil's most wanted list.

I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that ever commanded an army; I would rather win souls than be the greatest poet, or novelist, or literary man who ever walked the earth. My one ambition in life is to win as many as possible.

I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor. That's a lucky opportunity, and that drives me to want to be good at that.

What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

The street is the most impactful for me really, always, and the Internet. I guess I'd like to sell some more light pieces so I can rent some more billboards; that's my only ambition in life really. Then I'd like to save up some money so I can buy a very simple wooden house, and then after that I'd like to start buying billboards. I'd like to buy a bunch of billboards in different cities so we owned them and I could give them to Occupy to tell the truth with.

What is your ambition in life today? Is it to get rich? Is it to make a name for yourself? Is it even to do some wonderful thing for God? Listen to me, beloved. The highest desire that can possess any human heart is a longing to see God.

My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.

You might be a redneck if your biggest ambition in life is to git that big ole coon. The one what hangs 'round over yonder, back'ah Bubba's barn.

The poor Geordies are in the process of being rebuffed by every sentient human being whose ambition in life is more than simply to pocket six million quid for having been a failure and run for the hills. They want beautiful, flowing football and tangible success, at St James' Park. Fine. I, meanwhile, want Jessica Alba and the Nobel prize for literature. I make my prospects slightly more realistic.

We are in the position of the man who has only two ambitions in life. One is to invent the universal solvent which will dissolve any solid substance, and the second is to invent the universal container which will hold any liquid. Whatever this inventor does, he will be frustrated.

I can't wait for the iPhone 6. It's my only ambition in life to have it quickly.

My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.

The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Each child is poisoned by the society through teaching him ambition. Ambition is a poison far more dangerous than any alcohol can ever be, far more dangerous than marijuana or LSD, because ambition destroys your whole life. It keeps you moving in a false direction. It keeps you imagining, desiring, dreaming, it keeps you wasting your life. Ambition means a subtle creation of the ego, and once the ego is created you are in the grip of darkness. And the whole social structure depends on ambition.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

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.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.

Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

The man who seeks one thing in life and but one, May hope to achieve it before life is done; But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows, A harvest of barren regrets.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.