Ambition Quote by Anonymous

Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.

— John Adams

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

— Rebecca Miller

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

— Warren G. Harding

Ambition is a kind of fire that is burning within and must not be doused until you reach your goal.

— Damian Coleman

We should never let ambition cause us to sacrifice our integrity or diminish our efforts in other areas. However, we need to remember that…

— John Wooden

... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.

— George Eliot

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we…

— Benjamin Franklin

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

— Baruch Spinoza

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

— Susan Sontag

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

— Thomas Otway

“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