Quotes: Ambition

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.