Ambition Quote by John Milton

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

— Pierre Corneille

You have choice. You can select joy over despair. You can select happiness over tears. You can select action over apathy. You can select…

— Leo Buscaglia

If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy.

— Albert Camus

It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction

— Philip Sidney

Ambition aspires to descend

— Pierre Corneille

The path to joy leads through despair.

— Alexander Lowen

Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall.

— Jeanette Winterson

Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood; the highest, envy.

— William Lilly

Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart.

— Stephanie Mills

All doctrine is ultimately the death of joy - even when the doctrine is the elevation of the light above the serious, because joy…

— David Bennun

Joy is at its keenest when contrasted with sorrow, courage at its height when it follows fear, faith at its noblest when it grows…

— Alice Hegan Rice

Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.

— Dean Koontz