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
American Academic
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Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
-- Sir James M. Barrie
1860-1937, British Playwright
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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
-- Ambrose Bierce
1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
1769-1821, French General, Emperor
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What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
-- Robert Browning
1812-1889, British Poet
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning
1812-1889, British Poet
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Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
-- Robert Browning
1812-1889, British Poet
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