Ambition Quote by Augustine of Hippo

“I think that in practical life there is something about success, actual success, that is a little unscrupulous, something about ambition that is unscrupulous…

— Oscar Wilde

“If it is true that one is poor on account of all the things one wants, the ambitious and the avaricious languish in extreme…

— Jean de La Bruyère

“Persons born in wealth and luxury seldom achieve greatness. They were not born for labour; and, without labour, nothing that is worth having can…

— Maria S. Cummins

“You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is. Wealth has given me enormous power. It gave me at the very outset…

— Oscar Wilde

“Ambition is the undoing of men. They always want what they know to be impossible and unattainable. And they are unaware of the attainable.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

“The pursuit of wealth generally diverts men of great talents and of great passions from the pursuit of power, and it very frequently happens…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

...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

“The true luxury and the real potlatch of our times falls to the poverty-stricken, that is, to the individual who lies down and scoffs.…

— Georges Bataille

“Ambition is greed without makeup.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Success not maintained is worst than Poverty inheritted. Riches without maintenance is worst than inheritted Poverty.”

— Patience Johnson

“People are ruined by challenged economic lives. But they are ruined by wealth as well because they lose their ambition and they lose their…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Spending time with people without ambition is a self-destruction.”

— Amen Muffler