Ambition Quote by Alan Lightman

An ambitious person is one with a mental condition which compels him to work himself to death in order to live.

— Vikrant Parsai

“Worldly ambition inhibits true learning. Ask me. I know. A young man in a hurry is nearly uneducable: He knows what he wants and…

— Andrew J. Bacevich

For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and…

— Adolf Hitler

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

— Rebecca Miller

The ambition and focus that propel you to success can also be your downfall.

— Judy Smith

“The living are always trying to find the shortcuts to happiness in life. But look what happens when someone achieves premature success: they bloom…

— Susan Wells Bennett

We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

When you are ambitious enough, there is nothing you can't have in life, and nowhere that you can't go in life, your ambition will…

— Anonymous

All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good veryinadequate to their aspirations. They do so…

— Lydia M Child

Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life…

— Jeremy Clarkson

As far as I am concerned, ambition is the most dangerous occupation in the world. I have never been ambitious, or if I have,…

— Marco Pierre White