Explore 'Ambition'-Themed Quotes & Sayings

Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste.

Jean Patou

Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.

Mary Ruefle

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

Lily Tomlin

I didn’t want to be nobody, and that was the only way I could be somebody was to do stand-up.

George Lopez

I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.

Kevin Bacon

I can’t just be the girl who sang ‘I Kissed a Girl.’ I have to leave a legacy.

Katy Perry

Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.

Juvenal

Teacher: What do you want to be when you grow up? Marji: I’ll be a prophet.

Marjane Satrapi

Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they’re famous for.

Mary Lou Retton

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

Bob Dylan

If you aren’t sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.

Robert Breault

The ambitious man has never found his true vocation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Hunger not to have, but to be

John Dewey

Anybody can be nobody; but it takes a man to be somebody.

Eugene V. Debs

Know who you are, and be it. Know what you want, and go out and get it!

Carroll Bryant

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