Quotes
Quotes about Ambition
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
By low ambition and the thirst of praise.
But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
He was utterly without ambition [Chas. II.]. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.
Here may we reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Such joy ambition finds.
But what will not ambition and revenge Descend to? who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd, obnoxious first and last To basest things.
Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
Big results require big ambitions.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Ambition never comes to an end.
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
