Ambition Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition,” he wrote. “I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Arrogance was unattractive enough when it was attached to true talent or brilliance. Attached to childishness, it was just plain irritating.”

— Erica Spindler

“Yes, my particular virtue of being very often objective, and thus sidetracked from thinking about myself, suffers lapses of affirmation, as do all virtues…

— Fernando Pessoa

“[W]e all incline in astonishingly personal ways to idiocy and spite”

— Alain de Botton

“Such is the sleight of hand by which we juggle with ourselves, and change our very weaknesses into stanch and most magnanimous virtues!”

— Charles Dickens

“Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of the praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be of the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Nevertheless, let no one boast. Just as every man, though he be the greatest genius, has very definite limitations in some one sphere of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“That is the fantastic intolerable paradox of my life, that I have gone questing for what I possessed initially -- a belief to invest…

— Milton Steinberg

“Satisfy people's desire for the ridiculous and they will accept your idea of the sublime.”

— Maurice Willson Disher

“But haven't all ambitious people something of the monstrous about them? You, sir, for instance, if you will forgive me, are a little bit…

— Mervyn Peake

“To the connoisseur of scenes, nothing is more enjoyable than a thorough, melodramatic, egoistic humility.”

— Sinclair Lewis

“You are gifted and capable beyond your wildest imagination. You have not yet begun to explore all the ways you can make your life…

— Robin Jones Gunn