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Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
-Christopher Marlowe
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If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now.
-Mildred Mcafee
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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
-Charlie McCarthy
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The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.
-Peter McWilliams
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If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
-Henry Miller
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-Michel de Montaigne
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A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
-George Jean Nathan
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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
-William Osler
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Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
-Thomas Otway
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition.
-Cesare Pavese
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The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
-William Penn
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
-Alexander Pope
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
-Edgar Quinet
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
-John D. Rockefeller
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The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.
-John D. Rockefeller
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Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
-Kenny Rogers
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It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
-Sallust
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We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?
-George Sand
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The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer... He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.
-Robert L. Schwartz
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
-Sir Walter Scott
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It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
-William Shakespeare
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As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
-William Shakespeare
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Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
-William Shakespeare
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He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man
-William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2
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Books about Ambition
