Ambition

Ambition Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. -Niccolo Machiavelli 'Tis a common proof, that lowliness is Edward Young ambition's ladder,where to the climber upwards turns his face; but when he once attains the utmost round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks into the clouds scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend. -Shakespeare A slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many masters as there are persons whose aide may contribute to the advancement of his fortune. -La Bruyere Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you. -John Dryden Ah! curst ambition! to thy lures we owe, All the great ills that mortals bear below. -Teckell Airy ambition, soaring high. -Sheffield Ambition is a lust that's never quenched, grows more inflamed, and madder by enjoyment. -Otway Ambition is an idol, on whose wings Great minds are carried only to extreme; To be sublimely great or to be nothing. -Southey Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. -Denham Ambition's like a circle on the water, which never ceases to enlarge itself, 'till by broad spreading it disperse to nought. -Shakespeare Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train. -Penrose Ambition: The glorious frailty of the noble mind. -Hoole Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow. -Shakespeare Just as there are three R's there are also three A's of business life. They are: Ability, Ambition, and Attitude. Ability establishes what a worker does and will bring him a paycheck. Ambition determines how much he does and will get him a raise. Attitude guarantees how well he does. -Wilbert E. Sheer No bounds his headlong, vast ambition knows. -Rowe. O cursed ambition, thou devouring bird, how dost thou from the field of honesty pick every grain of profit or delight, and mock the reaper's toil! -Harvard Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself. -Shakespeare What is ambition? 'Tis a glorious cheat. Angels of light walk not so dazzlingly the sapphire walls of heaven. -Willis

What's all the gaudy glitter of a crown? What but the glaring meteor of ambition, that leads the wretch benighted in his errors, points to the gulf and shines upon destruction? -Brooke Why dost thou court that baneful pest, ambition? -Potter You have no friends among the ambitious. -Ron Randall Ambition is the last refuge of failure. -Oscar Wilde Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. -William Lilly We grow small by trying to be great. -E. Stanley Jones Too low they build who build below the skies. -Edward Young Hitch your wagon to a star. -Ralph Waldo Emerson The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted to the love of glory. -Cicero He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below. -Lord Byron Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. -William Shakespeare All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. -Joseph Conrad Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly. -Horace Ambition is not a vice of little people. -Michel de Montaigne To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court. -Philip Sidney If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. -Publius Syrus When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. -Cicero Ambition often puts men upon doing the mesaest offices: so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. -Jonathan Swift 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. -Henry Ward Beecher Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. -Thomas Dunn English Some folks can look so busy doing nuthin' that they seem indispensable. -Kin Hubbard Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. -Thomas Otway

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. -George Jean Nathan The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. -William Shakespeare Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. -Charlie McCarthy Any man with ambition, integrity and $10,000,000 can start a daily newspaper. -Henry Morgan She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to. -Gypsy Rose Lee A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. -Marcus Aurelius There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting imposibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes. -Pindar He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty. -Publilius Syrus Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues. -Quintilian In private enterprises men may advance or recede, wheras they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall. -Tacitus Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star. -Willis Reed You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not? -George Bernard Shaw Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ah, but a man's grasp should exceed his reach, Or what's a heaven for? -Robert Browning Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly. -Horace