ambition Quotes

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

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.