Quotes on ambition
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
Dyke, Henry Van
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Jefferson, Thomas
Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
Sallust
"Ambition should be made of 'STERNER' stuff" - Julius Caesar
Author, Unknown
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Penn, William
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
Osler, William
Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked.
Landor, Walter Savage
We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?
Schwartz, Robert L.
O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind farewell content Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars That make ambition virtue O, farewell Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell Othello's occupation's gone
Shakespeare, William
From compromise and things half done,
Ward, William Arthur
"Superior ability breeds superior ambition." - Spock
Author, Unknown