66 Movie Quotes about Ambition (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

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.

41 I'd like to be an explorer, like the great Magellan. -Oh. You're too late. There's really nothing left to explore.

Truman Burbank in The Truman Show

42 I'm not a crook. I'm ambitious. There's a difference.

Jack Nicholson as The President in Mars Attacks! (1996)

43 As he was fortunate, I rejoice at it. As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

James Mason as Brutus in Julius Caesar (1953)

44 Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Marlon Brando as Mark Antony in Julius Caesar (1953)

45 Was this ambition?

Marlon Brando as Mark Antony in Julius Caesar (1953)

46 Well, we'd better be ready for them. Because they gotta die or win.

Quote from The Magnificent Seven (1960)

47 Well, baby, you know... There's nothing wrong with ambition. -It is... in the wrong circles.

Richard Pryor as Sugar Ray in Harlem Nights

48 Not you, Father. You've never done a thing without weighing every move on the scale of your ambition and your love of power.

Richard Burton as Alexander The Great in Alexander the Great (1956)

49 Nobody was ever mean about it. It's just I could never get very excited about other people's ambitions for my life.

Ethan Hawke as Jesse in Before Sunrise

50 Ambition is alright if it works, but no system could be right where only half of one percent were successes and all the rest were failures.

Quote from Christmas in July (1944)