Motivational Quotes

Ambition

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

Best Quotes about Ambition

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

Otway, Thomas

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Proverb, Hungarian

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

Denham, Sir John

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

Stanley, Arthur P.

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

Quinet, Edgar

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

Swift, Jonathan

We grow small trying to be great.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

Proverb, Italian

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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Danielson, C. Archie

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.

Horace

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Seneca

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

Lilly, William

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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Ambition never comes to an end.

Kenko, Yoshida

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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.

36.

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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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Pope, Alexander

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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.

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

Rogers, Kenny

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

Browning, Robert

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

Browning, Robert

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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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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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Big results require big ambitions.

Champy, James

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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