Ambition Quotes

2147 Ambition quotes by 1378 unique authors

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 to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of… — Charles Caleb Colton
Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of… — Walter Scott
The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition. — Edmund Burke
How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition. — Nathaniel Parker Willis
Ambition and suspicion always go together. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend. — Pierre Corneille
For the spear was a desert physician, That cured not a few of ambition, And drave not a few to perdition, With medicine bitter and… — James Elroy Flecker
Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and… — George Stillman Hillard
In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall. — Tacitus
Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money. — Robert H. Jackson
Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her. — Walter Savage Landor
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues. — Quintilian
The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic air, a much… — Louis Kronenberger
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need — Ben Jonson
The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability — William Feather
People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like… — Margaret Mead
Where does this guy's ambition go? That's very peculiar. I think he's a very disturbing person, I think he's a very disturbing politician. Personally, I… — Helen Mirren
The difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and which you are… — Rachel Field
When I was asked to join this club and I saw the quality and ambitions of the manager it was an easy choice for me… — Unknown Author
The only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions — Unknown Author
The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and the army tomorrow. — Yakubu Gowon
Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life. — Pierre de Coubertin
It's been a lifetime ambition of mine to play an 007 villain. — Angelina Jolie

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