Ambition Quotes
Ambition is the spur that makes man struggle with destiny. It is heaven's own incentive to make purpose great and achievement greater. -Donald G. Mitchell
If you wish to reach the highest,
begin at the lowest. -Publilius Syrus (85BC-43BC)
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. -H.W. Beecher
When you go in search of honey you
must expect to be stung by bees. -Kenneth Kaunda
Well it is known that
ambition can creep as well as soar. -Edmund Burke
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court. -Sir P. Sidney
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the
path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. -Friedrich
Nietzsche (1844-1900)
To be ambitious of true honor, of the
true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and
incentive of virtue. -Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
Though ambition in itself is a vice,
it often is also the parent of virtue. -Edgar Quinet (1803-1875)
Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration. -G. Macdonald
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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than
boredom. -Angus Grossart
Discontent follows ambition
like a shadow. -Anonymous
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
(1918-1990)
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few
who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
-Herbert N. Casson
It is a psychological law
that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon
the subjective or subconscious mind; that is, we must
register a vow with ourselves, we must make our resolution
with vigor, with faith that we can do the thing we want to
do; we must register our conviction with such intensity that
the great creative forces within us will tend to realize
them. Our impressions will become expressions just in
proportion to the vigor with which we register our vows to
accomplish our ambitions, to make our visions realities.
-Orison S. Marden
Great souls, by nature half divine, soar to the stars, and hold a near acquaintance with the
gods. -Rowe
What I aspired to be and was not,
comforts me. -Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness
proceeds. -Thomas Dunn English
The tallest trees are most in the
power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
-William Penn (1644-1718)
If your energy is as boundless as your
ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should
seriously consider. -Dr. Joyce Brothers
Though ambition itself is a
vice, it is often the parent of virtues. -Quintilian A.D. 80
Ambition often puts Men upon doing
the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position
with creeping. -Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Keep away from people who try to belittle
your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really
great ones make you feel that you too, can become great.
-Mark Twain
It seems to me we can never give up
longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain
things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after
them. -George Eliot (1819-1880)
It is the constant fault and
inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
-Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC3-65AD)
Ambition is the last refuge
of the failure. -Oscar Wilde
If you have a great ambition, take as
big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step
may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one
possible for now. -Mildred McAfee
There is a loftier ambition than
merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift
mankind a little higher. -Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933)
Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must
set yourself on fire. -Arnold H. Glasgow,.
This one is a bit tongue-in-cheek:
"To be unhappy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition."
-Samuel Johnson
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