Ambition Quotes

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.

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

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

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

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

I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.

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

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.

We grow small trying to be great.

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

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

Ambition never comes to an end.

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

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