(491 quotes found)
“If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.”
Karl von Clausewitz
“When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.”
Jim Henson
“Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven”
John Milton
“Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.”
Charlie McCarthy
“To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being”
John Lubbock
“I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.”
Frank Sinatra
“Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue”
Quintilian
“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.”
Thomas Jefferson
“If I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.”
Madonna
“Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.”
Walter Savage Landor
