Ambition Quote by Emile Cioran

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

— Emile M. Cioran

Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the…

— Thomas Brooks

“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

“Addiction is nothing but voluntary madness.”

— Narcotics Anonymous

“Ambition was a dull pain, like a continually broken heart.”

— Enid Shomer

“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

“Passion creates, addiction consumes.”

— Gabor Maté

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

— Rebecca Miller

“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

“Action achieves ambition.”

— Amit Kalantri