Ambition Quote by Benjamin Franklin Download Open image “Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.” — Benjamin Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambition Disappointment Fortune Good fortune My ambition Sour Wealth
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 Copy Share Image
Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Ambition is priceless, that's something that's in ya veins, and I doubt that ever change. — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
“ambition meant never being satisfied, to be always hungering for something more, constantly pushing forward because no success could ever be big enough to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything. — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, -it steals… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If your ambition comes at the price of an unbalanced life, that there's nothing else that gives you comfort but success, it's not worth… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
“I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.” — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I was always attracted most to joining City, and I am pleased to be at such a good club with such a big ambition… — Edin Dzeko Copy Share Image
Work towards your goal and dont watch the post size,its either they hate,or like you.there is no room for both sides. — Isaac Buabeng Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way. — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image