Ambition Quote by Anonymous

...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

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

— Rebecca Miller

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.

— George MacDonald

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray…

— Robert Greene

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

— Mark Kingwell

Ambition is at the very core of success and extraordinary achievement. Unlike greed, it's a powerful, creative and constructive force.

— Jim Rohn

Greed and ambition can be negative things.

— Kunal Kapoor

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

— Warren G. Harding

The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.

— Anonymous