Ambition is a quality valued in leaders.
Acquired power can be wielded in the name of a vague or clear ideal or multiple ideals. When ambition is used to seek a clear ideal, it develops a close relationship to extremism. Throughout human mankind, many examples can be found of people who were extremely ambitious, for better and for worse.
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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Aldous Huxley
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. Pearl Bailey
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.
Marcus Aurelius
A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
Wilson Mizner
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Samuel Johnson
A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.
Arthur Koestler
A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
Steven Brust
A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment. Frances Burney
Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
Adam Ant
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.
Paul Auster
All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.
Charles Cotton
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition. Cesare Pavese
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
Noah Webster
Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
James M. Barrie
Ambition aspires to descend.
Pierre Corneille
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. Sallust
Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.
Rebecca Miller
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
Sallust
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
Walter Savage Landor
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. Aldous Huxley
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. Pearl Bailey
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.
Marcus Aurelius
A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
Wilson Mizner
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Samuel Johnson
A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.
Arthur Koestler
A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
Steven Brust
A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment. Frances Burney
Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
Adam Ant
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.
Paul Auster
All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.
Charles Cotton
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition. Cesare Pavese
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
Noah Webster
Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
James M. Barrie
Ambition aspires to descend.
Pierre Corneille
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. Sallust
Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.
Rebecca Miller
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
Sallust
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
Walter Savage Landor
Lao Tzu
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
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
Elvis Presley
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
Emile M. Cioran
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Thomas Otway
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Milan Kundera
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Shakti Gawain
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Walter Savage Landor
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
Michel de Montaigne
Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
Bryant H. McGill
Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
Robert Browning
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar Wilde
Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. William Eardley IV
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
Bill Bradley
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