Ambition Quote by Joseph Hall

“Worldly ambition inhibits true learning. Ask me. I know. A young man in a hurry is nearly uneducable: He knows what he wants and…

— Andrew J. Bacevich

“From his earliest days William Ayrton’s ambition had been to become a landed gentleman and to found a family. To modern ears this ambition…

— D.E. Stevenson

“I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue, that the first object of laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Never, I say, had a country so many openings to happiness as this… Her cause was good. Her principles just and liberal. Her temper…

— Thomas Paine

Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.

— Horace Mann

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic…

— Thorstein Veblen

An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.

— William Shakespeare

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

— Honore de Balzac

Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification.

— Sydney Thompson Dobell

Emulation, even in brutes, is sensitively "nervous." See the tremor of the thoroughbred racer before he starts. The dray-horse does not tremble, but he…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time…

— Thomas Hobbes

No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models…

— Paulo Freire