Ambition Quote by William Shakespeare

In his laborious efforts to attain mountaintops, where the air is lighter and purer, the climber gains new strength of limb. In the endeavor…

— Pope Pius XI

“He peered up the ladder. In his young imagination, it must have reached the clouds. ”

— Bruce Wilkinson

He who ascends to mountaintops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look…

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

Th aspirer, once attaind unto the top, Cuts off those means by which himself got up.

— Samuel Daniel

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

— Samuel Smiles

Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing intent of a high aim the very roughness encourages the climber…

— Tony Bond

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

A man never rises higher than when he does not know whither his path can still lead him.

— Oliver Cromwell

“When you are above you want to get higher but are afraid to fall.If you have reached the bottom you have only one thing…

— Anonymous

“The heights to which we aspire - often prove not as lofty as those that transpire.”

— Warren Olson

“I have ascended to the highest in me, and look, the Word is towering above that. I have descended to explore my lowest depths,…

— Bernard of Clairvaux