Motivational Quotes

Ambition

Ambition never comes to an end.

- Kenko, Yoshida

Best Quotes about Ambition

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.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Proverb, Hungarian

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

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

Seneca

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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Browning, Robert

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

Horace

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Quinet, Edgar

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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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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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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Big results require big ambitions.

Champy, James

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

Browning, Robert

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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Pope, Alexander

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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 like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

Denham, Sir John

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

English, Thomas Dunn

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

Grossart, Angus

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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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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 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

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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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Ambition never comes to an end.

Kenko, Yoshida

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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 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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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Danielson, C. Archie

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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

Proverb, Italian

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Miller, Henry

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

Browning, Robert

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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 the last refuge of failure.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Joubert, Joseph

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We grow small trying to be great.