Ambition Quote by Warren G. Harding

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.

— John Adams

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

— James Madison

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 at the very core of success and extraordinary achievement. Unlike greed, it's a powerful, creative and constructive force.

— Jim Rohn

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

True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace…

— Anonymous

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

— Robert Browning

Ambition is a kind of fire that is burning within and must not be doused until you reach your goal.

— Damian Coleman

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is…

— Edward Dahlberg

If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.

— Whitfield Diffie

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

— Baruch Spinoza