Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
Ambition Quotes
Devotion to duty is a fire that warms us but worldly ambition is a fire that consumes us.
If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.
Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself And falls on the other side. (Macbeth)
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
