Motivational Quotes

Ambition

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

- Scott, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about Ambition

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

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

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

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.

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

Proverb, Italian

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

Big results require big ambitions.

Champy, James

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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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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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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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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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 germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

English, Thomas Dunn

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Otway, Thomas

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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 -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Quinet, Edgar

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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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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Danielson, C. Archie

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Sontag, Susan

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When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Proverb, Hungarian

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

Rogers, Kenny

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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 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 like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

Denham, Sir John

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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 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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We grow small trying to be great.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Pope, Alexander

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

Browning, Robert

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

Seneca

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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