A Quotes
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“Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.”
“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.”
Source: Alms for Oblivion
“Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who is able to recount the sources and issues thereof?”
“Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.”
“Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight”
“Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.”
“Ambition is a funny thing. It’s like being a Trekkie in that if you admit to it, those around you are mock supportive of your confidence but are quick to call you a loser behind your back.
Or maybe that’s the opposite of being a Trekkie.”
“Ambition is a funny thing. You can completely screw yourself with it if you're not careful.”
“Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases.”
Source: Works of Thomas Brooks, Volume 5 of 6
“Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.”
“Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring.”
Source: The Poetry of Robert Burns: Posthumous pieces
“Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character”
“Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.”
“Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master.”
“Ambition is a tunnel that you run through that doesn't end.”
“Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.”
“Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.”
“Ambition is a wild horse, but harnessed properly it can pull a heavy load".
- Roboute Guilliman”
Source: Avenging Son
“Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.”
Source: Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)
“Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds of coin.”
“Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.”
“Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.”
“Ambition is at the very core of success and extraordinary achievement. Unlike greed, it's a powerful, creative and constructive force.”
“Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!”
“Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration.”
Source: Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)
“Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)
“Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.”
Source: The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age
“Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.”
“Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or home that is filled with ashes.”
Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside
“Ambition is like a plague that can only be cured by success.”
“Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite”
“Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.”
“Ambition is never modest. If modesty means to have middling success, then I can only say: I'm not interested.”
“Ambition is no cure for love!”
Source: Select Poetical Works: Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, Lady of the Lake and Rokeby
“Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.”
Source: Gardens Of The Moon: (Malazan Book Of The Fallen 1)
“Ambition is not a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.”
“Ambition is not a vice of little people.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)
“Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.”
Source: A Memorial of Daniel Webster: From the City of Boston
“Ambition is not feminine and Hustle is not Masculine.”
“Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.”
Source: Ricordi
“Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.”
“Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.”
“Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.”
“Ambition is only vanity ennobled.”
Source: The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
“Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.”
“Ambition is priceless, its something that's in your veins.”
“Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.”
“Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.”
“Ambition is something you turn into a plan to create an online personality, a brand, a network.”
“Ambition is the death of thought.”