Ambition Quotes

Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
- Oscar Wilde

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.
- William Feather

Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be, It exacts a full look at the Worst.
- Thomas Hardy

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
- Hosea Ballou

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
- Michael Korda

Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir men's blood.. Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.
- Daniel H. Burnham

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
- William Shakespeare

Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.
- Juliette Binoche