One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Ambition Quotes
Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
There are two passions which have a powerful influence on the affairs of men. These are ambition and avarice.
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
Don’t be afraid to take a big step. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
