More quotations tagged with “ambition”
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
—Quintilian
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.
—Mark Twain
Dreams, goals, ambitions—these are the stuff man uses for fuel.
—L. Ron Hubbard