Ambition Quote by Claire Messud

“The freedom of an unscheduled afternoon brought confusion rather than joy. Julius had always been focused. When he was not seeing patients, other important…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“The ambition of Caesar and of Napoleon pales before that which could not rest until it had seized the minds of men and controlled…

— Robert W. Chambers

“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

“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

“playing upon his hopes and fears to reduce him to complete servility, certain to kill him if he broke away, and certain to kill…

— C.S. Lewis

“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him; The evil that men do lives after them,…

— William Shakespeare

“This may sound too simple, but is great in consequence. Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness.…

— W.H. Murray

“Ambition is a path, not a destination, and it is essentially the same path for everybody. No matter what the goal is, the path…

— Wallace Stegner

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus…

— William Shakespeare

“As to what that exile and that longing for reunion meant, Rieux had no idea. But as he walked ahead, jostled on all sides,…

— Albert Camus

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one…

— William Hutchison Murray

...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