Motivational Quotes

Ambition

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

Best Quotes about Ambition

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

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

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

Proverb, Italian

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

Ambition never comes to an end.

Kenko, Yoshida

I too must attempt a way by which I can raise myself above the ground, and soar triumphant through the lips of men.

Virgil

Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

Wilde, Oscar

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

Southey, Robert

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Pope, Alexander

10.

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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I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.

Horace

12.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Horace

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

Grossart, Angus

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

Lilly, William

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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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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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When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Proverb, Hungarian

22.

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

Browning, Robert

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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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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Danielson, C. Archie

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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

26.

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

Denham, Sir John

27.

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

Rogers, Kenny

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Browning, Robert

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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 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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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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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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Big results require big ambitions.

Champy, James

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Kaunda, Kenneth

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Otway, Thomas

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

English, Thomas Dunn

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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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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.