| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind. |
| Alexander Pope | Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. |
| C Archie Danielson | Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. |
| Charlie McCarthy | Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. |
| Christopher Marlowe | Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds. |
| Dante Alighieri | The great refusal. |
| Edgar Quinet | Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. |
| Eli Stanley Jones | We grow small trying to be great. |
| Eliza Cook | On what strange stuff Ambition feeds! |
| Elizabeth I | If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all. |
| Epictetus | First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. |
| F Hawes | Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself. |
| George Herbert | For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice A banner with the strange device, Excelsior! |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. |
| Herbert N Casson | The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. |
| Horatius Flaccus | I strike the stars with by sublime head. |
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