Ambition Quote by Edmund Burke Download Open image “Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.” — Edmund Burke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambition
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Ambition is a lust that's never quenched, Grows more inflated, and madder by enjoyment. - TOtway — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, ambition is the most dangerous occupation in the world. I have never been ambitious, or if I have,… — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
“I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.” — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I was always attracted most to joining City, and I am pleased to be at such a good club with such a big ambition… — Edin Dzeko Copy Share Image
Work towards your goal and dont watch the post size,its either they hate,or like you.there is no room for both sides. — Isaac Buabeng Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way. — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
