Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Ambition Quotes
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 […]
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another’s fame.
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.
It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward upon the miseries and credulities of mankind.
Nothing is so commonplace as to wish to be remarkable.
