Motivational Quotes

Ambition

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Ambition

Ambition never comes to an end.

Kenko, Yoshida

The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.

Rockefeller, John D.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Quinet, Edgar

We grow small trying to be great.

Jones, Eli Stanley

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

Eliot, George

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

Walpole, Horace

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

Bierce, Ambrose

I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking profile that you need.

Cutler, Laurel

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?

Browning, Robert

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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Pope, Alexander

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The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

Casson, Herbert N.

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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

Denham, Sir John

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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

Wilde, Oscar

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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Danielson, C. Archie

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Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Taylor, Sir Henry

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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Rogers, Kenny

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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.

Dali, Salvador

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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

Kaunda, Kenneth

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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Swift, Jonathan

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Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Lilly, William

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If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

Syrus, Publilius

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If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

Miller, Henry

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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

Browning, Robert

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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

Proverb, Italian

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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Johnson, Samuel

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The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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.

Cook, James R.

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When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Proverb, Hungarian

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If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now.

Mcafee, Mildred

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Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Sontag, Susan

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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

Hoffer, Eric

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He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.

Lao-Tzu

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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Joubert, Joseph

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A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!

Browning, Robert

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Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

Otway, Thomas

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I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.

Horace

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Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

Southey, Robert

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I too must attempt a way by which I can raise myself above the ground, and soar triumphant through the lips of men.

Virgil

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Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Big results require big ambitions.

Champy, James

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Every child has great ambitions. As he grows, he is bombarded by negative suggestions -- you can't do this; you can't do that; be careful; look for security, and so on. Year by year, he experiences the realities of life, and his ambitions fade away. Figuratively speaking, most children die by the time they reach their adulthood.

Sinha, Shall

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It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

Seneca