Ambition Sayings & Quotes
These ambition sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions. - Marcus Aureleus
Big results require big ambitions. - Heraclitus
I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels. - William Shakespeare
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, Id place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. - Horace Walpole
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. - Sallust
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what interests you and that you can do well, and put your whole soul into it, ever bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have. - John D. Rockefeller
The different branches of Arithmetic, Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. - Lewis Carroll
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. - Marquis De Vauvenargues
Time is the only critic without ambition. - John Steinbeck
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. - Salvador Dali
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. - Thomas Jefferson
Since you go where all have gone before, why do you torment your disgraceful life with such mean ambitions, O miser? [La., Abiturus illuc priores abierunt, Quid mente caeca torques spiritum? Tibi dico, avare.] - Phaedrus
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss. - Niccolo Machiavelli
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues. - Marcus Fabius Quintilian
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us, avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. - Francesco Petrarch
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher. - Henry Van Dyke
Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others. - Susan Sontag
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. - Samuel Johnson
One often passes from love to ambition, but one rarely returns from ambition to love. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. - Voltaire
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? - Vincent Van Gogh
Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance. - Alistair Cooke