If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
Ambition Quotes
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.
Ambition aspires to descend.
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
