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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
-Italian Proverb
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We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.
-Anon.
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When ambition ends, happiness begins.
-Proverb
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Children, you must remember something. 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
Talking to Myself (1971)
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Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.
-Judith M. Bardwick
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Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
-James Barrie
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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
-Ambrose Bierce
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No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
-William Blake
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
-Les Brown
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What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
-Robert Browning
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'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
-Robert Browning
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Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
-Robert Browning
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There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others.
-Jean De La Bruyere
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
-Jean De La Bruyere
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
-Edmund Burke
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
-Robert Burton
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He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
-Herbert N. Casson
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It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
-Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
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Big results require big ambitions.
-James Champy
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Books about Ambition
