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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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Best Quotes about Ambition

1.
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
Stanley, Arthur P.

2.
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

3.
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
Scott, Sir Walter

4.
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Southey, Robert

5.
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.

6.
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
Taylor, Sir Henry

7.
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.

8.
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

9.
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

10.
Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
Wilde, Oscar

11.
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
Kaunda, Kenneth

12.
The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
Goldsmith, Oliver

13.
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
Lilly, William

14.
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
Hoffer, Eric

15.
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
Rogers, Kenny

16.
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

17.
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.

18.
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
Syrus, Publilius

19.
He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.
Lao-Tzu

20.
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Denham, Sir John

21.
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

22.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Danielson, C. Archie

23.
If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
Miller, Henry

24.
Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
Barrie, Sir James M.

25.
Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
Browning, Robert

26.
Ambition never comes to an end.
Kenko, Yoshida

27.
Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
Sontag, Susan

28.
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

29.
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Proverb, Hungarian

30.
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.

31.
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
Seneca

32.
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.

33.
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

34.
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

35.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Joubert, Joseph

36.
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
Bierce, Ambrose

37.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
English, Thomas Dunn

38.
Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
Proverb, Italian

39.
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

40.
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
Horace

41.
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Otway, Thomas

42.
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

43.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
Browning, Robert

44.
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

45.
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

46.
'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
Browning, Robert

47.
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.

48.
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Johnson, Samuel

49.
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Grossart, Angus

50.
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Quinet, Edgar


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