| Author |
Quotes |
| Horatius Flaccus | Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we would storm heaven itself in our folly. |
| Horatius Flaccus | No steps backward. |
| Horace Walpole | Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. |
| Hungarian Proverb | When ambition ends, happiness begins. |
| James Champy | Big results require big ambitions. |
| James R Cook | I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go. |
| Jean de la Bruyere | A slave has but one master. An ambitious man has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune. |
| John D Rockefeller | I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build. |
| John Dryden | But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. |
| John Dryden | Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down. |
| John Milton | Here may we reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. |
| John Milton | Such joy ambition finds. |
| John Milton | But what will not ambition and revenge Descend to? who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd, obnoxious first and last To basest things. |
| John Milton | If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want. |
| Jonathan Swift | Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. |
| Joseph Conrad | 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. |
| Joseph Joubert | Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. |
| Judith M Bardwick | Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money. |
| Kenneth Kaunda | When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. |
| Laurel Cutler | I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk- seeking profile that you need. |
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