Motivational Quotes

Ambition

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Ambition

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.

I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.

Horace

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

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

Browning, Robert

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

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Danielson, C. Archie

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

Browning, Robert

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

Stanley, Arthur P.

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

Grossart, Angus

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

Quinet, Edgar

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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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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

Proverb, Italian

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

Denham, Sir John

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Kaunda, Kenneth

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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 never comes to an end.

Kenko, Yoshida

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

Seneca

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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.