Ambition Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Ambition is a lust that's never quenched, Grows more inflated, and madder by enjoyment. - TOtway

— Anonymous

The vague torment of ... ambition.

— Emile Zola

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

— Thomas Otway

Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls.

— Steven Pressfield

Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the…

— Thomas Brooks

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of…

— Walter Savage Landor

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

— Shakti Gawain

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

— Rebecca Miller

Ambition is your inner voice that tells you, you can, and should, strive to go beyond your circumstances or situation in life.

— Lloyd Blankfein

Ambition is the mind's immodesty.

— William Davenant

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

— John Adams