Ambition Phrases

Idioms for ambition

• A goal in mind
• A place in the sun (an idealistic dream of a sunny hideaway)
• Aim high
• Alpha Mom (an ambitious mother who aims to excel at work while raising children)
• And Dream of Sheep (Kate Bush song)
• Anything's possible
• Aren't you glad you use Dial? Don't you wish everybody did? (Dial Soap advertising slogan)
• Be careful what you wish for
• Be the change that you wish to see in the world (Mahatma Gandhi quotation)
• Bite off more than you can chew
• Blonde ambition
• Broaden your horizons
• Climb onto the bandwagon
• Climb the corporate ladder
• Climb the greasy pole

• Cry for the moon
• Day dream
• Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick book)
• Don't dream it. Drive it! (Jaguar advertising slogan)
• Don't try to walk before you can crawl
• Dream On (Aerosmith song)
• Dream a little dream of you
• Dream away ()
• Dream big
• Dream come true
• Dream machine
• Dream on
• Dream team
• Dream ticket
• Dream up (Buick advertising slogan)

• Dream up (Invent)
• Dream world (A fantasy land)
• Driven by success
• Driving ambition
• Fire in your belly
• Gee, I wish I had a nickel (Life Savers Candy advertising slogan)
• Go for gold
• I feel like a Guinness - I wish you were (Guinness advertising slogan)
• I have a dream
• I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Wiener (Oscar Meyer advertising slogan)
• I wish they all could be Caledonia girls (Caledonia Airlines advertising slogan)
• I wouldn't dream of it ()
• Live the dream
• Living the dream
• Love's young dream

• Man with a plan
• Midsummer Nights Dream
• Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish (Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band song)
• Pipe dream
• Play to win
• Please let it be a dream
• Power mad
• Score an own goal
• Sitting target
• Soft target
• Stars in your eyes
• Teenage Dream (Katy Perry song)
• The American dream
• The Dream (Nickname of Hakeem Olajuwon)
• The Dream Factory (film or television studio where idealised concepts are manufactured - especially Hollywood)

• The Dream Never Dies (Cooper Brothers song)
• The daily diary of the American dream (Wall Street Journal advertising slogan)
• The wish is father to the thought
• Think big
• To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub
• Upwardly mobile
• Wet dream
• When you wish upon a star
• Wish for the moon
• Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye
• Wish you were here
• Works like a dream ()
• Yes, master (A catchphrase from I Dream Of Jeannie)
• You'll wish you had never been born