Family Quote by D.E. Stevenson

Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“Aristocracy is relative: there are all sorts of inexpensive little resorts where the son of a furniture salesman may be the arbiter of all…

— Marcel Proust

“His ambition was not to become wealthy or to be well known, an image which society for some reason dictates each individual should prescribe…

— Andrew James Pritchard

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 aspires to descend

— Pierre Corneille

“He might have had as much right to be there as a maharajah’s bastard had to claim a throne, but he was determined to…

— Paul Fraser Collard

“He was a descendant from the younger branch of an illustrious family, and it was designed, that the deficiency of his patrimonial wealth should…

— Ann Radcliffe

Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true…

— Edward Bates

“A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot, and a true…

— Edmund Burke

“…and the mousesized mousecolored spinster trembling and aghast at her own temerity, staring across it at the childless bachelor in whom ended that long…

— William Faulkner

“I fancy my father thought me an odd child, and had little fondness for me; though he was very careful in fulfilling what he…

— Mary Ann Evans

“Foreordain it? No. The man's circumstances and environment order it. His first act determines the second and all that follow after. But suppose, for…

— Mark Twain