Ambition destroys its possessor…
- A driving ambition is of little use if you’re on the wrong road. ~ Frank Tyger
- A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. ~ Pearl Bailey
- A slave has but one master. An ambition man has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune. ~ Jean De La Bruyere
- All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ~ Henry Word Beecher
- Ambition begets troubles. ~ Senegalese Proverb
- Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. ~ Sir Walter Scott
- Ambition can creep as well as soar. ~ Edmund Burke
- Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. ~ Benjamin Franklin
- Ambition is not a vice of little people. ~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
- Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. ~ Joseph Joubert
- Ambition is the last refuge of failure. ~ Oscar Wilde
- Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. ~ Jonathan Swift
- Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. ~ William Shakespeare
- Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend. ~ Pierre Corneille
- As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him. ~ William Shakespeare
- Discontent is something that follows ambition like a shadow. ~ Henry H. Haskins
- He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes. ~ Chinese Proverb
- I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. ~ Angus Grossart
- Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- On what strange stuff Ambition feeds! ~ Eliza Cook
- So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be. ~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
- The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability. ~ William Feather
- Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. ~ Edgar Quinet
- Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people’s sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money. ~ Judith M. Bardwick
- What is my loftiest ambition? I’ve always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan. ~ Oliver Herford
- Where there are large powers with little ambition… nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. ~ Sir Henry Taylor
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