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

Updated: Dec 6, 2025

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

51 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)

52 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

53 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.

Dick Powell as Jimmy in Christmas in July (1944)

54 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)

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

Cornel Wilde as Griff Marat in Shockproof (1949)

56 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)

57 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

58 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)

59 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)

60 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)

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

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