Air Quote by Dejan Stojanovic

If unjustified, ambition kills value, eats its own life, kills someone else's desire to fly, cuts their wings, sucks their air.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“I don't know what good ambition's ever done to anybody. It's the kind of thing that turns to dead sea fruit in your mouth.”

— Agatha Christie

“Spending time with people without ambition is a self-destruction.”

— Amen Muffler

“Ambition is greed without makeup.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Wallace Stegner

“I say that ambition is absurd, and yet I remain in its thrall. It’s like being a slave all your life, then learning one…

— Tom Rachman

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 putting a ladder against the sky.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“Success and nothing less, fly high or don't fly at all. . .”

— Nanley Losier

“But unscrupulous ambition has nothing to work upon, save in a nation corrupted by avarice and luxury. Moreover, a people becomes avaricious and luxurious…

— Augustine of Hippo