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“Big results require big ambitions.”
- Heraclitus
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“Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the
ambition of others.”
- susan sontag
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“Ambition displeases when it has been sated
... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.”
-pierre corneille
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“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.”
-Oscar Wilde
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“Intelligence
without ambition is a bird without wings.”
-Salvador Dalí |
“Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
-William Shakespeare
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“I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful
and thankless office.”
-Thomas Jefferson
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“Ambition is the germ from which all growth of
nobleness proceeds.”
- Oscar Wilde
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“Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use
it finds despicable.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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“A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions”.
-Marcus Aurelius
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“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
-Marilyn Monroe
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“Ambition
-- it is the last infirmity of noble minds.”
-j.m. barrie
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“Ambition
first sprung from your blest abodes; The glorious fault of Angels and of Gods.”
-Alexander pope
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“Most
people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great
ambitions.”
- Henry wadsworth longfellow
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“Ambition
must be made to counteract ambition.”
-james madison
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“Ambition
can creep as well as soar.”
-Edmund burke
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“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened,
ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
-Helen Keller
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“Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one
thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together -
black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.”
-Bob Marley
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”Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true
kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more,
and to do more.”
-Oscar Wilde
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“Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they
seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.”
-Niccolo Machiavelli
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“I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion
rather than boredom.”
-Thomas Carlyle
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“When ambition ends, happiness begins.”
-Thomas Merton
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“The universe is not required to be in perfect
harmony with human ambition.”
-Carl Sagan
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“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
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“Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions
in order to be who you need to be.”
-Bob Dylan
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“Ambition may be defined as the willingness to
receive any number of hits on the nose.”
-Wilfred Owen
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“Men often pass from love to ambition, but they
seldom come back again from ambition to love.”
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential
madmen.”
-Emile M. Cioran
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“Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips,
others by their restlessness and ambition.”
-John Ruskin
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“The incentive to ambition is the love of power.”
-William Hazlitt
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“Ambition can creep as well as soar.”
-Edmund Burke
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“Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.”
-Elvis Presley
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“All ambitions are lawful except those that climb
upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.”
-Henry Ward Beecher
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“Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.”
-Baruch Spinoza
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“Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the
vehicle you arrive in.
-William Eardley
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“Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it
merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.”
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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“A young man without ambition is an old man waiting
to be.”
-Steven Brust
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“Ambition is not what man does... but what man would
do.”
-Robert Browning
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“My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.”
-Juliette Binoche
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“I have only one ambition, which is to be famous.”
-Robbie Williams
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