Ambition Quotes

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
- Plutarch

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
- David Hume

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
- Buddha

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
- Joseph Joubert

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
- Bill Bradley

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
- Robert Burton