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Thursday, 24 July 2008
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"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown." (Beecher, Henry Ward - Success)

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Browse Quotations about Ambition

'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
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.
A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
Ambition never comes to an end.
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
Big results require big ambitions.
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
Every child has great ambitions. As he grows, he is bombarded by negative suggestions -- you can't do this; you can't do that; be careful; look for security, and so on. Year by year, he experiences the realities of life, and his ambitions fade away. Figuratively speaking, most children die by the time they reach their adulthood.
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime . Not failure, but low aim is crime.
Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.
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.
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
I too must attempt a way by which I can raise myself above the ground, and soar triumphant through the lips of men.
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.
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now.
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
Keep away from small 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.
Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. [The Root Of The Righteous]
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.
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.
The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.