Motivational Quotes

Ambition

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

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Ambition

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

Walpole, Horace

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.

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

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

Rogers, Kenny

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

Proverb, Italian

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

Taylor, Sir Henry

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

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.

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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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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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Sontag, Susan

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When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Proverb, Hungarian

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

Browning, Robert

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.

Horace

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Browning, Robert

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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.

34.

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

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 is the last refuge of failure.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Big results require big ambitions.

Champy, James

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

Grossart, Angus

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

English, Thomas Dunn

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