Ambition Quote by Henri Poincare

A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.

— Alain de Botton

... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.

— George Eliot

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

— Jean Monnet

“is mathematically compounded of ambition, distraction, uglification and derision,”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.

— Plato

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

— Warren G. Harding

Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.

— James A. Champy

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter tamen causa…

— Quintilian

“Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a…

— Mary Everest Boole

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

— James Madison

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

— John Adams

“I confess that Fermat 's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, for a multitude of such theorems can easily…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss