Ambition Quote by Edward Bates

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

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 a priceless trait, it is grown and cultured in each and every individual that it lies in, and in some it grows…

— Anonymous

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

— Robert Browning

Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.

— Warren G. Harding

Everyone is ambition. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or to do.

— Jean Monnet

There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.

— John Adams

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 your inner voice that tells you, you can, and should, strive to go beyond your circumstances or situation in life.

— Lloyd Blankfein

Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different…

— Jeffrey Kluger