Motivational Quotes

Ambition

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.

Best Quotes about Ambition

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

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

Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

Wilde, Oscar

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.

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

Browning, Robert

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

Taylor, Sir Henry

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

Denham, Sir John

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

Kaunda, Kenneth

Big results require big ambitions.

Champy, James

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

Syrus, Publilius

11.

We grow small trying to be great.

Jones, Eli Stanley

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

English, Thomas Dunn

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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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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.

18.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Proverb, Hungarian

19.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Browning, Robert

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

Hoffer, Eric

25.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Danielson, C. Archie

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

Rogers, Kenny

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Browning, Robert

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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 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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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.

40.

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

Quinet, Edgar

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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Pope, Alexander

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Lilly, William

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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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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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