Motivational Quotes

Ambition

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

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 the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

English, Thomas Dunn

We grow small trying to be great.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Stanley, Arthur P.

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

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.

I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.

Horace

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 is the last refuge of failure.

Wilde, Oscar

10.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

11.

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

Lilly, William

12.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Proverb, Hungarian

13.

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

Joubert, Joseph

14.

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

Proverb, Italian

15.

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

Rogers, Kenny

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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

17.

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

18.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

19.

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

20.

Big results require big ambitions.

Champy, James

21.

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

Miller, Henry

22.

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

Sontag, Susan

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

26.

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

Walpole, Horace

27.

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

Quinet, Edgar

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Hoffer, Eric

33.

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

Otway, Thomas

34.

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

Browning, Robert

35.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Pope, Alexander

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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

37.

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.

38.

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

Seneca

40.

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

Kaunda, Kenneth

41.

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

Syrus, Publilius

42.

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

Browning, Robert

43.

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

44.

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

Grossart, Angus

45.

Ambition never comes to an end.

Kenko, Yoshida

46.

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

47.

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

Browning, Robert

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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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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Danielson, C. Archie

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