Motivational Quotes

Ambition

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

- Lilly, William

Best Quotes about Ambition

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Barrie, Sir James 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

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

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

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

Southey, Robert

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

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

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Pope, Alexander

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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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Big results require big ambitions.

Champy, James

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

Rogers, Kenny

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

Browning, Robert

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

Browning, Robert

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

Denham, Sir John

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

Miller, Henry

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Grossart, Angus

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

Stanley, Arthur P.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Danielson, C. Archie

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

English, Thomas Dunn

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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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Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

Wilde, Oscar

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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

Proverb, Italian

37.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Proverb, Hungarian

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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We grow small trying to be great.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.