Quotes

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

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

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

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

A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
-Marcus Aurelius

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
-David Starr Jordan

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.
-Francis Bacon

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
-St. Francis de Sales

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

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

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

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

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

Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
-Oscar Wilde

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
-William Somerset Maugham

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain.
-Kahlil Gibran

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
-William Hazlitt

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme - to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
-Shakti Gawain

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, Is in a prince the virtue (The Bashful Lover).
-Philip Massinger

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
-Marcus Aurelius

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead.
-Pearl Bailey

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet - clang of another's fame.
-Balthasar Gracian

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find.
-John F. Kennedy

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

Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.
-Frank Tyger

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

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

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

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

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

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
-Vauvenargues

When ambition ends, happiness begins.
-Thomas Merton

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
-Bob Dylan

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
-Bob Dylan

He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
-Chinese proverb

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

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

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