Motivational Quotes

Ambition

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

- Taylor, Sir Henry

Best Quotes about Ambition

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

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Quinet, Edgar

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

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

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

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Browning, Robert

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

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

English, Thomas Dunn

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Pope, Alexander

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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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When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Proverb, Hungarian

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Big results require big ambitions.

Champy, James

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Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

Wilde, Oscar

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I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.

Horace

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

Denham, Sir John

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

Browning, Robert

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