The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
- Robert Burton
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
- Bill Bradley
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
- Joseph Joubert
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
- Buddha
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
- David Hume
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
- Plutarch
My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.
- Juliette Binoche
Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
- William Shakespeare
Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir men's blood.. Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.
- Daniel H. Burnham
An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
- Michael Korda
You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
- Hosea Ballou
Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be, It exacts a full look at the Worst.
- Thomas Hardy
The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.
- William Feather
Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
- Oscar Wilde
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, Is in a prince the virtue (The Bashful Lover).
- Philip Massinger
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
- Vauvenargues
A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
- Marcus Aurelius
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
- Marcus Aurelius
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
- Thomas Merton
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
- David Starr Jordan
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
- William Somerset Maugham
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead.
- Pearl Bailey
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
- Bob Dylan
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain.
- Kahlil Gibran
Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet - clang of another's fame.
- Balthasar Gracian
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
- Bob Dylan
All rising to great places is by a winding stair.
- Francis Bacon
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
- William Hazlitt
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find.
- John F. Kennedy
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
- Chinese proverb
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
- St. Francis de Sales
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 the last infirmity of noble minds.
- James Matthew Barrie
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
- Abraham Lincoln
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence, or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
- William Hazlitt
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
- Dr. Carl Sagan
Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.
- Frank Tyger
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.
- Sir Roger L'Estrange
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.
- Samuel Johnson
Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as a sheep.
- Madonna
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
- Unknown
