Ambition Quote by Russell Kirk

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

— Warren G. Harding

Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

— Quintilian

Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

— Oscar Wilde

Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the…

— Thomas Brooks

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray…

— Robert Greene

... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.

— George Eliot

Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.

— John Adams

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

— Oscar Wilde

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

— Anonymous

“But unscrupulous ambition has nothing to work upon, save in a nation corrupted by avarice and luxury. Moreover, a people becomes avaricious and luxurious…

— Augustine of Hippo

“Ambition is the undoing of men. They always want what they know to be impossible and unattainable. And they are unaware of the attainable.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

— Thomas Otway