Ambition

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however

high we reach we are never satisfied. -Niccolo Machiavelli
'Tis a common proof, that lowliness is Edward Young ambition's
ladder,where to the climber upwards turns his face; but when he once
attains the utmost round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks
into the clouds scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend.
-Shakespeare
A slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many masters
as there are persons whose aide may contribute to the advancement
of his fortune. -La Bruyere
Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you. -John Dryden
Ah! curst ambition! to thy lures we owe,
All the great ills that mortals bear below. -Teckell
Airy ambition, soaring high. -Sheffield
Ambition is a lust that's never quenched, grows more inflamed, and
madder by enjoyment. -Otway
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings
Great minds are carried only to extreme;
To be sublimely great or to be nothing. -Southey
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. -Denham
Ambition's like a circle on the water, which never ceases to enlarge
itself, 'till by broad spreading it disperse to nought. -Shakespeare
Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train. -Penrose
Ambition: The glorious frailty of the noble mind. -Hoole
Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious
is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and
light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow. -Shakespeare
Just as there are three R's there are also three A's of business life.
They are: Ability, Ambition, and Attitude. Ability establishes what a
worker does and will bring him a paycheck. Ambition determines how
much he does and will get him a raise. Attitude guarantees how well
he does. -Wilbert E. Sheer
No bounds his headlong, vast ambition knows. -Rowe.
O cursed ambition, thou devouring bird, how dost thou from the field
of honesty pick every grain of profit or delight, and mock the reaper's
toil! -Harvard
Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself. -Shakespeare
What is ambition? 'Tis a glorious cheat. Angels of light walk not so
dazzlingly the sapphire walls of heaven. -Willis
What's all the gaudy glitter of a crown? What but the glaring meteor of
ambition, that leads the wretch benighted in his errors, points to the
gulf and shines upon destruction? -Brooke
Why dost thou court that baneful pest, ambition? -Potter
You have no friends among the ambitious. -Ron Randall
Ambition is the last refuge of failure. -Oscar Wilde
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to
touch the heavens. -William Lilly
We grow small by trying to be great. -E. Stanley Jones
Too low they build who build below the skies. -Edward Young
Hitch your wagon to a star. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted to the love of glory.
-Cicero
He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of
those below. -Lord Byron
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. -William Shakespeare
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the
miseries or credulities of mankind. -Joseph Conrad
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in
our folly. -Horace
Ambition is not a vice of little people. -Michel de Montaigne
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of
our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be
ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is
as vain and little as the things are which we court. -Philip Sidney
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. -Publius Syrus
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach
the second or even the third rank. -Cicero
Ambition often puts men upon doing the mesaest offices: so climbing
is performed in the same posture with creeping. -Jonathan Swift
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is
higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The
one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which
a vulgar man aspires. -Henry Ward Beecher
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
-Thomas Dunn English
Some folks can look so busy doing nuthin' that they seem
indispensable. -Kin Hubbard
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed
and madder by enjoyment. -Thomas Otway
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. -George
Jean Nathan
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
-William Shakespeare
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
-Charlie McCarthy
Any man with ambition, integrity and $10,000,000 can start a daily
newspaper. -Henry Morgan
She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to. -Gypsy
Rose Lee
A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. -Marcus
Aurelius
There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at
hand, they strain into the future, hunting imposibilities on the wings of
ineffectual hopes. -Pindar
He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty. -Publilius
Syrus
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of
virtues. -Quintilian
In private enterprises men may advance or recede, wheras they who
aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and
utter downfall. -Tacitus
Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star.
-Willis Reed
You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never
were; and I say,
"Why not? -George Bernard Shaw
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has
genius, power and
magic in it. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ah, but a man's grasp should exceed his reach, Or what's a heaven
for? -Robert Browning
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in
our folly. -Horace