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Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
J.M. BARRIE, The Twelve-Pound Look
Where ambition can be so happy as to cover its enterprizes, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of all human passions.
DAVID HUME, The History of England
On what strange stuff ambition feeds!
Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
SUSAN SONTAG, The Benefactor
- Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes;
- The glorious fault of Angels and of Gods.
ALEXANDER POPE, Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
BARACK OBAMA, Daily Southtown, Feb. 19, 2005
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, Driftwood
Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON, The College Star (Southwest Texas State), June 19, 1929
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
EDWARD DAHLBERG, Alms for Oblivion
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
JAMES MADISON, The Federalist, Feb. 6, 1788
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
EDMUND BURKE, Letters on a Regicide Peace
We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY, Anne of Green Gables
Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.
JOHN WEBSTER, The Duchess of Malfi
Ambition is the ecclesiastical lust.
DANIEL NOONAN, The Passion of Fulton Sheen
There are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short, for they have forgotten what this country has already done, what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.
BARACK OBAMA, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20. 2009
'Tis immortality to die aspiring.
GEORGE CHAPMAN, Conspiracy of Charles, Duke of Byron
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