quotations about ambition
On what strange stuff ambition feeds!
ELIZA COOK
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Thomas Hood
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Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
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Ambition is like choler; which is an humor that maketh men active, earnest, full of alacrity, and stirring, if it be not stopped. But if it be stopped, and cannot have his way, it becometh adust, and thereby malign and venomous.
SIR FRANCIS BACON
"Of Ambition", Essays, or Counsels Civil and Moral
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An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge the chasms between itself and eminent success by the most faithful and minute performances of duty.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
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Ambition is but Avarice on stilts and masked.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Imaginary Conversations
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The topic of ambition is especially relevant in a world in which personal achievement, power and fame are prized above everything else. But at what price?
TOM SCHAEFER
"The many faces of ambition -- is it a virtue or vice?", The Wichita Eagle, February 14, 2016
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Ambition spells the difference between those who are content to let random circumstances determine their journey through life, and those who would like to have a say in where they end up.
RACHEL BRIDGE
Ambition: Why It's Good to Want More and How to Get It
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There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.
MICHAEL MOORCOCK
The City in the Autumn Stars
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They that soar too high, often fall hard.
WILLIAM PENN
Some Fruits of Solitude
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With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
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If you're like me, accolades make you want more accolades. Though responsible for great success and progress, ambition can also cause feelings of worthlessness, mania and anxiety.... At its worst, ambition mirrors the sick cycle of addiction.
CAROLINE BEATON
"Addicted To Ambition: 3 Ways Millennials Can Manage Their Stress", Forbes, February 10, 2016
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Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.
JONATHAN STROUD
The Amulet of Samarkand
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Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people -- which is what I think it does mean -- then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good. It isn't wrong for an actor to want to act his part as well as it can possibly be acted, but the wish to have his name in bigger type than the other actors is a bad one.
C. S. LEWIS
God in the Dock
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Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
PIERRE CORNEILLE
Cinna
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Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Alms for Oblivion
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The burden of ambition is the strain of seeking approval. It is the taxing effort to earn the envy of others, many of whom are in competition with us. It is the weight of self-imposed anxiety over the recognition we believe is due us. The burden of ambition is the back-breaking labor required to maintain our place on the record board and defend it against all comers. It is the grief we feel when someone else matches or surpasses our achievement.
JOHN KOESSLER
The Radical Pursuit of Rest: Escaping the Productivity Trap
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Ambition is a "lucifer" applied to a barrel of gunpowder, the explosion of which, where it succeeds in blowing one man into a niche, dashes twenty to atoms.
CHARLES WILLIAM DAY
The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of Agogos
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No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Proverbs of Hell
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Ambitious men ought to follow curved lines, the shortest road in politics.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
A Daughter of Eve
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Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
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