Motivational Quotes

Ambition

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

- Stanley, Arthur P.

Best Quotes about Ambition

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

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.

Hume, David

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

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

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Taylor, Sir Henry

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

Miller, Henry

Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Twain, Mark

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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Grossart, Angus

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Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

Horace

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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Danielson, C. Archie

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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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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

Proverb, Italian

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Browning, Robert

17.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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Big results require big ambitions.

Champy, James

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

Walpole, Horace

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We grow small trying to be great.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Quinet, Edgar

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve.Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.

Bardwick, Judith M.

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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.

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

Rogers, Kenny

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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

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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

English, Thomas Dunn

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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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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 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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Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. [The Root Of The Righteous]

Tozer, A. W.

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Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

Wilde, Oscar

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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Pope, Alexander

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Browning, Robert

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

Seneca

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Ambition never comes to an end.

Kenko, Yoshida

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

Browning, Robert