It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It […]
Ambition Quotes
We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to love.
The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
Ambition is an idol on whose wings great minds are carried to extremes, to be sublimely great, or to be nothing.
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top.
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. (Said at age 23 while a candidate for the state legislature)
Five great enemies to peace inhabit within us; avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices: so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
