Motivational Quotes

Ambition

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Ambition

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

Otway, Thomas

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.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Walpole, Horace

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

Browning, Robert

Big results require big ambitions.

Champy, James

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

Hoffer, Eric

We grow small trying to be great.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Browning, Robert

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

Horace

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Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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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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I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.

Horace

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Kaunda, Kenneth

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

English, Thomas Dunn

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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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Ambition never comes to an end.

Kenko, Yoshida

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Denham, Sir John

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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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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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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

Proverb, Italian

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Browning, Robert

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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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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Danielson, C. Archie

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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.