It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book — what others do not say in whole books.
Ambition Quotes
As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him. (Julius Caesar)
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It […]
We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to love.
The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
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.
