~ A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. ~
~ The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability ~
~ Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame. ~
~ 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. ~
~ Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue ~
~ An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition. ~
~ The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. ~
~ Big results require big ambitions. ~
~ Ambition can creep as well as soar. ~
~ The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune. ~
~ I feel extra ambitious when I am physically tired yet my creative juices keep me from resting. ~
~ Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need ~