Ambition Quote by Johann Georg Hamann

Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable…

— Francesco Guicciardini

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

Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite…

— Albert Pike

There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“To free oneself of ambitions and all forms of avarice: “Thirst for glory is the most futile of all, the most valueless and bogus…

— Stefan Zweig

The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the…

— Albert Einstein

Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring…

— William Gilmore Simms

The vague torment of ... ambition.

— Emile Zola

Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring.

— Robert Burns

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

— Ambrose Bierce

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of…

— Walter Savage Landor

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

— Shakti Gawain