Children, you must remember something. A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won’t be hard in the end to lie down and rest.
Ambition Quotes
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
We grow small trying to be great.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.
Ambition, n. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
