Ambition Quotes

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
- Anonymous Author

Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as a sheep.
- Madonna

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.
- Samuel Johnson

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.
- Sir Roger L'Estrange

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.
- Frank Tyger

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
- Dr. Carl Sagan

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence, or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
- William Hazlitt

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
- Abraham Lincoln

Ambition is the last infirmity of noble minds.
- James Matthew Barrie