Ambition Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude; and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one…

— Michel de Montaigne

“So boasting of her capacity to surround and protect, there was scarcely a shell of herself left for her to know herself by; all…

— Virginia Woolf

But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.

— Pat Conroy

Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“In the mind of the public, she seemed endowed with an almost supernatural power to commit heinous acts, now matter the time or place.”

— Alexis Coe

Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.

— Roger Penrose

She who only finds her self-esteem In others' admiration, begs an alms; Depends on others for her daily food, And is the very servant…

— Joanna Baillie

Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her place in…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

“It was characteristic of her that she remembered her failures as keenly as her triumphs, and that the passionate desire to obliterate, to "get…

— Edith Wharton

Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure…

— Henry James

The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is…

— James Anthony Froude