Ambition Quotes
48 quotations about Ambition
Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
Big results require big ambitions.
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
We grow small trying to be great.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
Ambition never comes to an end.
He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
Authors on Ambition
Sir James M. Barrie
Henry Ward Beecher
Robert Browning
Edmund Burke
Lord Byron
James Champy
Marcus T. Cicero
C. Archie Danielson
Sir John Denham
Thomas Dunn English
Oliver Goldsmith
Angus Grossart
Eric Hoffer
Horace
Hungarian Proverb
Italian Proverb
Samuel Johnson
Eli Stanley Jones
Joseph Joubert
Kenneth Kaunda