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
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
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke
The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
William Penn
I feel extra ambitious when I am physically tired yet my creative juices keep me from resting.
Martin Dansky
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
Ben Jonson
Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest
Oliver Goldsmith
Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
Oscar Wilde
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
William Shakespeare
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes
Chinese Proverbs
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
Dr. Carl Sagan
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
Lao Tzu
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
Unknown
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
John Webster