| Author |
Quotes |
| Marcus T Cicero | The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory. |
| Mark Twain | 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. |
| Niccolo Machiavell | Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. |
| Oliver Goldsmith | They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem. |
| Robert Browning | What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me. |
| Robert Burton | Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. |
| Robert Southey | Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing. |
| Sir Henry Taylor | Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. |
| Sir John Denham | Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. |
| Sir Philip Sidney | To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue. |
| Sir Walter Scott | Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. |
| Sir William Osler | Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition. |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay | He was utterly without ambition . He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration. |
| Thomas Dunn English | Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. |
| Thomas Otway | Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. |
| Timothy Leary | Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. |
| William Cowper | By low ambition and the thirst of praise. |
| William Cowper | On the summit see, The seals of office glitter in his eyes, He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! At his heels, Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down, And wins them, but to lose them in his turn. |
| William Lilly | Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. |
| Yoshida Kenko | Ambition never comes to an end. |
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