Though Ambition Itself Be A Vice, Yet It Is Often Times The Cause Of Virtues.
- Quintilian
A Man Without Ambition Is Dead. A Man With Ambition But No Love Is Dead. A Man With Ambition And Love For His Blessings Here On Earth Is Ever So Alive. Having Been Alive, It Won’t Be So Hard In The End To Lie Down And Rest.
- Pearl Bailey
Most People Would Succeed In Small Things If They Were Not Troubled With Great Ambitions.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Dreams, Goals, Ambitions – These Are The Stuff Man Uses For Fuel.
- L. Ron Hubbard
He Who Blinded By Ambition, Raises Himself To A Position Whence He Cannot Mount Higher, Must Thereafter Fall With The Greatest Loss.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
The Universe Is Not Required To Be In Perfect Harmony With Human Ambition.
- Carl Sagan
Lowliness Is Young Ambition’s Ladder, Whereto The Climber-Upward Turns His Face; But When He Once Attains The Upmost Round, He Then Unto The Ladder Turns His Back, Looks In The Clouds, Scorning The Base Degrees By Which He Did Ascend
- William Shakespeare
I Hold Ambition Of So Light A Quality That Is Is But A Shadow’s Shadow.
It’s Delightful To Have Ambitions. I’m So Glad I Have Such A Lot. And There Never Seems To Be Any End To Them; That’s The Best Of It. Just As Soon As You Attain To One Ambition You See Another One Glittering Higher Up Still. It Does Make Life So Interesting.
- L. M. Montgomery
What Seems To Be Generosity Is Often No More Than Disguised Ambition, Which Overlooks A Small Interest In Order To Secure A Great One.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Ambition Often Puts Men Upon Doing The Meanest Offices; So Climbing Is Performed In The Same Posture With Creeping.
- Jonathan Swift
Ambition, The Soldier’s Virtue, Rather Makes Choice Of Loss, Than Gain Which Darkens Him.
Virtue Is Choked With Foul Ambition.
All Ambitions Are Lawful Except Those That Climb Upward On The Miseries Or Credulities Of Mankind.
- Joseph Conrad
All Ambitions Are Lawful Except Those Which Climb Upward On The Miseries Or Credulities Of Mankind.
- William Congreve
I Have No Spur To Prick The Sides Of My Intent, But Only Vaulting Ambition, Which O’erleaps Itself, And Falls On The Other.
Men Are More Often Bribed By Their Loyalties And Ambitions Than By Money.
- Robert Jackson
Keep Away From 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.
- Mark Twain
Ambition Is Putting A Ladder Against The Sky.
- American Proverb
Ambition – It Is The Last Infirmity Of Noble Minds.
- James M. Barrie
If you must be a servant, serve the rich; if you must be a dog, be a temple dog.
- Laotian
There’s no eel so small but it hopes to become a whale.
- German
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