Ambition Quote by Jacqueline Carey

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

— Enid Shomer

“He understood how grief can twist a heart, how passions drive good men to folly.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Ambition was the old dream of his youth and childhood, a dream which he did not confess even to himself, though it was so…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He knew now that when power and ambition and curiosity were satisfied, there still were left the longings of the heart.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

“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

“For a moment, I felt sorry for him. The pain and disappointment of his life hung about him like a cloak. It permeated the…

— Evette Davis

“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

“Ambition interests me because it’s such a surefire indicator of damage.”

— Peter Morgan

“This is not ambition. This is desperation.”

— Douglas Coupland

“He seemed unaware of what was going on, stared out without hope or ambition, without worry, developing a quality devoid of qualities to get…

— Kiran Desai

“I suppose I'm ambitious for something in spite of the fact that most things known as success don't inspire me to try for them…

— Robert McAlmon

“For while I destroyed his hopes, I did not satisfy my own desires. They were for ever ardent and craving; still I desired love…

— Mary Shelley