Ambition Quotes

2147 Ambition quotes by 1378 unique authors

My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition. — Lajos Kossuth
The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere… — Walter Lippmann
Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language,… — Michel de Montaigne
The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels ... — William Shakespeare
Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big… — Joseph Addison
I think we still believe that ambition is for boys. — Jeanette Winterson
There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome. — Robert Louis Stevenson
We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine: 'Imagine a man who sets out on a voyage equipped with a pair of… — Robert Kennedy
Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art… — Robert Kennedy
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community. — Baron de Montesquieu
We have our ambition for the future and God. And thus we put God as a plus sign after something else we want. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of… — Seneca the Younger
For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the… — Charles Caleb Colton
Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. — J. G. Ballard
Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring. — Robert Burns
Whatever you think of Facebook, you cannot fault it for lack of ambition. — Joe Greene
Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and… — Edmund Burke
I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition. — Ian Fleming
Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme,… — Charles Baudelaire
The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things which they had… — John Stuart Mill
I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one… — Francesco Guicciardini
The vague torment of ... ambition. — Emile Zola
For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child,… — Andrea Dworkin
Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate. — Horace Greeley

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