Ambition Quotes

Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.

Dreams, goals, ambitions - these are the stuff man uses for fuel.

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.

I hold ambition of so light a quality that is is but a shadow's shadow.

Virtue is choked with foul ambition.

I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on the other.

Lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
But when he once attains the upmost round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend

Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.

The nature of society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow-by the tilt of the social landscape.

It's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them—that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.