About Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.

— Warren G. Harding

If you don’t have ambition, you shouldn’t be alive

— Aliko Dangote

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Ambition is the mind's immodesty.

— William Davenant

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

— Alan Lightman

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.

— Whitfield Diffie

Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.

— Jonathan Stroud

Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of…

— T. S. Eliot

...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and…

— Russell Kirk

Ability Without Ambition Is Like A Car Without A Motor...

— Pacifiersucker

Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence

— George Santayana