Ambition Quote by Joseph Addison

“The greatness of a man depends on his ability to achieve is goals, vision and ambition”

— victor essien

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities…

— Giorgos Seferis

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument…

— Adam Smith

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

“The man of ambition thinks to find his good in the operations of others; the man of pleasure in his own sensations; but the…

— marcus aurelius

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

— Warren G. Harding

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

— Shakti Gawain

Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of…

— T. S. Eliot

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

What is ambition but desire of greatness? And what is greatness but extent of power?

— Thomas Higgons