Ambition Quotes

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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.~ Henry Word Beecher
A driving ambition is of little use if you’re on the wrong road.~ Frank Tyger
Ambition — it is the last infirmity of noble minds.~ Sir James. M Barrie
Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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 one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.~ William Lilly
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.~ Charlie McCarthy
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.~ Quintilian
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.~ Buddha
Ambition is not what man does… but what man would do.~ Robert Browning
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.~ Joseph Joubert
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Ambition is the last refuge of failure.~ Oscar Wilde
Ambition is the last infirmity of noble minds.~ James Matthew Barrie
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.~ Bill Bradley
Ambition never comes to an end.~ Yoshida Kenko
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.~ Jonathan Swift
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
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.~ Salvador Dali
Big results require big ambitions.~ James Champy
Discontent is something that follows ambition like a shadow.~ Henry H. Haskins
Do not let big ambitions overshadow small successes.~ Ambition quotes.
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.~ Angus Grossart
I do not fear failure. I only fear the “slowing up” of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, “Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you? ~ General George S.
I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.~ James R.Cook
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.~ Salvador Dalí
I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.~ Frank Sinatra
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special.~ Sugar Ray Leonard
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.~ Thomas Jefferson
THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.~ Thomas J. Watson
The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.~ William Feather
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.~ William Shakespeare
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.~ Edgar Quinet
To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
What is my loftiest ambition? I’ve always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.~ Oliver Herford
When ambition ends happiness begins.~ Hungarian Proverb
When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success. ~ Cullen Hightower
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.~ Timothy Leary