Ambition Quote by Alberto Manguel

When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.

— Seneca the Younger

The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did…

— Milan Kundera

“If you cannot think of solutions that are discarded as a result of the specified ambition, the ambition is not clear enough.”

— Rob Van Haastrecht

Ambition without knowledge is like a Boat on dry land !!!

— Tagore

Ambition is a tunnel that you run through that doesn't end.

— Curtis Jackson

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

— H. G. Wells

What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

— Holly Black

The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I am an ambitious writer – I don’t see the point of being anything, no, not anything at all, if you have no ambition…

— Jeanette Winterson

Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.

— John Adams

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

— Anonymous