Ambition Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Ambition is the mind's immodesty.

— William Davenant

Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring…

— William Gilmore Simms

Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master.

— Thomas Jefferson

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

— Shakti Gawain

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

— Baruch Spinoza

Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.

— John Adams

Ambition is the death of thought.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is…

— Edward Dahlberg

Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.

— Jonathan Stroud

“The master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve.”

— Laozi

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

— Wilfred Owen

Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.

— Baruch Spinoza