Ambition Quotes

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

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

C. Archie Danielson

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

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

Charlie McCarthy

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
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