66 Movie Quotes about Ambition (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

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.

21 Ambition's debt is paid.

James Mason as Brutus in Julius Caesar (1953)

22 There's tears for his love, joy for his fortune, honor for his valor, and death for his ambition.

James Mason as Brutus in Julius Caesar (1953)

23 I'm going clear up to the top. But I'm not going for the climb or the view.

Walter Pidgeon as Will Cantrell in Dark Command (1940)

24 We've done the battle of the wills. The deck's stacked in my favor. You're just gonna lose again.

John Candy as Buck Russell in Uncle Buck (1989)

25 Oh, yes, 'cause I'm a bit of a perfectionist, actually. Yes, I am. See, for me, it's got to be the best, or it's nothing at all.

Spud in Trainspotting (1996)

26 Now, look here, you've not had occasion to understand men like me. I've got the guts, and I've got the money and I don't sit still on it. I'm going ahead because I believe in meself. I've no use for sentiment and that sort of thing.

Edmund Gwenn as Mr Hornblower in The Skin Game (1931)

27 You can't ask me to drop everything I've been working for and give up all my ambitions, because your plans have changed.

Olivia Hussey as Jess in Black Christmas (1974)

28 You smoke too much of that _, that _'s gonna rob you of your ambition. -Not if your ambition is to get high and watch TV.

Quote from Jackie Brown

29 If your heart is in your dreams, no request is too extreme. When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.

Quote from Pinocchio (1939)

30 I'll be big, real big. And maybe I'll come back here and show a few guys who's boss.

Farley Granger as Nicky Bradna in The Naked Street (1955)