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

 

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

 

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

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
 

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
 

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. -Thomas Dunn English

 

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
 

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

 

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. -Oscar Wilde
 

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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