Motivational Quotes

Ambition

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

- Rogers, Kenny

Best Quotes about Ambition

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

Walpole, Horace

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

Sontag, Susan

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.

Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

Wilde, Oscar

Ambition never comes to an end.

Kenko, Yoshida

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

Browning, Robert

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

Browning, Robert

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

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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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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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Pope, Alexander

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

Rogers, Kenny

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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We grow small trying to be great.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Browning, Robert

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Kaunda, Kenneth

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

Denham, Sir John

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

Lilly, William

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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 is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

English, Thomas Dunn

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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

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I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.

Horace

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Quinet, Edgar

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Grossart, Angus