The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
Ambition Quotes
Ambition is an idol on whose wings great minds are carried to extremes, to be sublimely great, or to be nothing.
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top.
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. (Said at age 23 while a candidate for the state legislature)
Five great enemies to peace inhabit within us; avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices: so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
Most people would succeed in small things, if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
