Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
Lao Tzu
Ambition is the last infirmity of noble minds.
James Matthew Barrie
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
Dr. Carl Sagan
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Thomas Merton
Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
Oscar Wilde
Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest
Oliver Goldsmith
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
Ben Jonson
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
Herbert N. Casson
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved.
Helen Keller
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
Helen Keller
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
Barack Obama