66 Movie Quotes about Ambition (+ Sound Clips) - page 6

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.

51 I wouldn't brood about it. I mean, everybody tries for that extra five yards, and, well, sometimes people get in our way.

Judi West as Sandy Hinkle in The Fortune Cookie (1966)

52 She wants to be waitress in drive-in restaurant. Waitress! Your wife got ambition like that? -No.

Quote from Shockproof (1949)

53 It would not be the first time that fame has turned a prince against his Pharaoh. -Or that envy has turned a brother against his brother.

Yul Brynner as Ramses Ii in The Ten Commandments (1956)

54 You also think I'm not as good as him. All right. Master thinks I'm no good, and you do as well. It seems I've got no alternative. I'll have to prove that I'm better.

Quote from 13 Style Strike

55 What's all this to do with flying? -It makes the fire in your belly that gives you lift.

John Ritter as Peter Dickinson in The Flight of Dragons (1982)

56 You will soon see. I'll make it. I'm gonna be a great success, hmph!

Quote from Yoga and the Kung Fu Girl (1979)

57 I dreamt of commanding men. He was happy to have a woman by his side. Perhaps he is right.

Romulus And Remus in Duel of the Titans (1961)

58 True, you are the one who is leading us. We agree, but you are an ambitious man, and often a cruel one.

Quote from Duel of the Titans (1961)

59 You surprise me. You sound like a king. -He's young. Every young man feels like a king.

Steve Reeves as Romulus in Duel of the Titans (1961)

60 Fred isn't going to be satisfied with that job at the drugstore. He'll get something better. -Oh, sure. Maybe in five years he'll be drawing down 40 or 50 bucks.

Quote from The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)