AMBITION

When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Hungarian Proverbs

Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
Abraham Lincoln

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Joseph Joubert

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
Seneca

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Samuel Johnson

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
Samuel Johnson

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
Kenny Rogers

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Angus Grossart

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
Marcus T. Cicero

We grow small trying to be great.
Eli Stanley Jones

The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.
Charles Horton Cooley

Ambition is not a vice of little people.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.
Judith M. Bardwick

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
John D. Rockefeller

As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
Lord Byron

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Lord Alfred Tennyson

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
Marcus T. Cicero

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
Sir John Lubbock

Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
Sir James M. Barrie

He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.
Lao-Tzu

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
Oliver Goldsmith

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Thomas Dunn English

The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.
John D. Rockefeller

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.
Joseph Conrad

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
Benjamin Franklin

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
Charles Caleb Colton

I too must attempt a way by which I can raise myself above the ground, and soar triumphant through the lips of men.
Virgil

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
Italian Proverbs

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
George Jean Nathan

If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now.
Mildred Mcafee

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Sir John Denham

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Robert Southey

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
Horace

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime . Not failure, but low aim is crime.
James Russell Lowell

I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
Horace

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
Kenneth Kaunda

Where ambition ends happiness begins.
Source Unknown

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
Jonathan Swift

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

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. [The Root Of The Righteous]
A. W. Tozer

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Edgar Quinet

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
William Lilly

Every child has great ambitions. As he grows, he is bombarded by negative suggestions -- you can't do this; you can't do that; be careful; look for security, and so on. Year by year, he experiences the ''realities'' of life, and his ambitions fade away. Figuratively speaking, most children die by the time they reach their adulthood.
Shall Sinha

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
Arthur P. Stanley

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

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
Sallust