Ambition Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness;…

— Jeremy Collier

There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

— Michel de Montaigne

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

— Honore de Balzac

All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced…

— Samuel Johnson

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.

— John Churton Collins

Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained, and the…

— Jeremy Collier

Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy the pretensions…

— William Hazlitt

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The passions often engender their contraries.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld