Top Ambition Quotes
As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
Lynn Davies
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Milan Kundera
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Shakti Gawain
The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
Katharine Hepburn
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
Lynn Davies 
72% of people like this quote
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Milan Kundera
66% of people like this quote
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Shakti Gawain
65% of people like this quote
The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
Katharine Hepburn
64% of people like this quote
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
63% of people like this quote
What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.
Oliver Herford
62% of people like this quote
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
Niccolo Machiavelli
62% of people like this quote
Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
Susan Sontag
61% of people like this quote
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