Ambition Quote by Henry Van Dyke

“There is a loftier ambition than to stand high in the world. It is to step down and lift mankind a little higher.”

— Henry Van Dyke

There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but…

— Martin Delany

Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.

— Pierre Corneille

To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes.

— Edmund Burke

Rise above the mere idea of existence and LIVE!

— Dawn Anderson

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Get high because the world is so low.

— Patience

To rise above the crowd, you must discipline yourself unceasingly to the strict demand and realities of your ambition.

— Arturo Sandoval

One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express…

— Richard Bach

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

— Orison Swett Marden

“If a human being is to ascend to the heights of life, they must first know who they are, where they currently stand, and…

— Emily Gowor