Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

About Quintilian

Portrait of Quintilian

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Latin: [kʷiːntɪliˈaːnʊs]; c. 35 – c. 100 AD) was a Roman educator and rhetorician born in Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing. In English translation, he is usually referred to as Quintilian ( kwin-TIL-ee-ən), although the alternate spellings of Quintillian...

More quotations from Quintilian

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

More quotations tagged with “ambition”

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 so hard in the end to lie down and rest.

—Pearl Bailey

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

—Niccolo Machiavelli

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Dreams, goals, ambitions—these are the stuff man uses for fuel.

—L. Ron Hubbard

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

—Joseph Conrad

History

11 Jul 2015 Added