66 Movie Quotes about Ambition (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Aug 8, 2025

Memorable quotes about ambition, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 I wish to rule on high as sultan.

Quote from Aladdin (1992)

2 All my life I've wanted to lead a lot of men in a desperate battle. Now I'm going to do it.

George C. Scott as General George Patton in Patton (1970)

3 Contestants, if you hear me back there... You don't need to be number one as you amble down life's highway, but don't be last!

Quote from They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

4 You keep this up, you're gonna end up just like me. Having everything you ever wanted.

Nick Nolte as Vincent in Over the Hedge

5 Don't you kid yourself about that. There will always be guys trying to get up there quick, and I'm one of them.

James Cagney as Eddie Bartlett in The Roaring Twenties (1939)

6 And I realized something today. It's not just about me and my dream of doing nothing. It's about all of us together.

Ron Livingston as Peter Gibbons in Office Space

7 To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes, you must free your ambitious mind, and learn the art of dying.

Bruce Lee as Li Tsung in Longstreet

8 Whatever kind of ambition it took to do what you did around here, this world could use a lot more of it.

Quote from Remember the Titans

9 No way, mister. You're going to the top of this mountain, broken legs and all.

Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank in The Truman Show

10 Oh, so I didn't make it to the tippy-top today. Just wait until tomorrow.

Paul Winchell as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh