Ambition

(108 votes)   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
1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer

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(105 votes)   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

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(101 votes)   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
1882-1958, American Critic

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(100 votes)   Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

Sir John Denham
1615-1668, British Poet, Dramatist

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(93 votes)   Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime . Not failure, but low aim is crime.

James Russell Lowell
1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor

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(86 votes)   Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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

Horace
BC 65-8, Italian Poet

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(83 votes)   Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

Robert Southey
1774-1843, British Author

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(83 votes)   I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.

Horace
BC 65-8, Italian Poet

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(75 votes)   Where ambition ends happiness begins.

Source Unknown

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(73 votes)   When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

Kenneth Kaunda
1924-, Zambian Politician, President

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(72 votes)   Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Jonathan Swift
1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist

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(72 votes)   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
?-1963, American Preacher

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(70 votes)   Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Charlie McCarthy

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(69 votes)   Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Edgar Quinet
1803-1875, French Poet, Historian, Politician

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