35 inspirational quotes on personal development and ambition

Great minds have goals; others have wishes - Washington Irving

The greatest achievement is to surpass yourself. - Denis Waitley

You must always aspire to be the best, but never believe that you are. - Juan Manuel Fangio

Ambition is the road to success. Perseverance is the vehicle that gets you there. - Bill Bradley

If you want more, you have to demand more of yourself. - Phil McGraw

Stay away from people who try to play down your ambitions. Little people always do that, but big people make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain

Without ambition, you start nothing. Without work, you finish nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to earn it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. - Salvador Dali

Don't try to be successful, try to be valuable. - Albert Einstein

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. - Elvis Presley

There is a higher ambition than simply standing tall in the world. It's to bend over and lift humanity up a bit. - Henry Van Dyke

Ambition is the seed from which all noble growth proceeds. - Oscar Wilde

No bird flies too high if it flies with its own wings. - William Blake

What is my highest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan. - Oliver Herford

The desire to reach the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. - Maya Angelou

Ambition is a drug that drives its addicts mad. - Emile M. Cioran

The incentive to ambition is the love of power. - William Hazlitt

What appears to be generosity is often nothing more than ambition in disguise, which neglects a small interest in order to secure a large one. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Ambition is not a dirty word. Urinate on compromise. Aim for the throat. - Steven Erikson

Ambition and love are the wings of great deeds. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Make mistakes of ambition, not mistakes of laziness. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer. - Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but which becomes more inflamed and crazier through enjoyment. - Thomas Otway

When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success. - Cullen Hightower

Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its own appetite. - Josh Billings

Although ambition in itself is a vice, it is often the mother of virtues. - Quintilian

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. - Michael Korda

Ambition has its disappointments to embitter us, but never good fortune to satisfy us. - Benjamin Franklin

Ambition. A prevailing desire to be maligned by enemies while alive and ridiculed by friends when dead. - Ambrose Bierce

When ambition ends, happiness begins. - Thomas Merton

The tallest trees are the most exposed to the winds, and ambitious men to the assaults of fortune. - William Penn

The very substance of the ambitious is but the shadow of a dream. - William Shakespeare