Motivational Quotes

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

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

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

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Proverb, Hungarian

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

Proverb, Italian

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

Browning, Robert

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.

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.

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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We grow small trying to be great.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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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 the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

English, Thomas Dunn

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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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I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.

Horace

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Kaunda, Kenneth

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

Stanley, Arthur P.

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

Rogers, Kenny

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Pope, Alexander

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

Horace

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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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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

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

Grossart, Angus

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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

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

Otway, Thomas

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Ambition never comes to an end.

Kenko, Yoshida

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

Denham, Sir John

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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