Ambition
Ability without ambition is like kindling wood without the spark anonymous
Ambition can creep as well as soar Edmund Burke
Ambition is not a reprehensible quality, nor are ambitious men to be censured, if they seek glory through honorable and honest means. In fact, it is they who produce great and excellent works. Those who lack this passion are cold spirits, inclined toward laziness than activity. But ambition is pernicious and detestable when it has as its sole end power. Francesco Guicciardini
Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do. Jean Monnet
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. Abraham Lincoln
Ambition [is] the fuel of achievement Joseph Epstein
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition Sigmund Freud
If I had not had so much ambition and had not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful Thomas Alva Edison
The incentive to ambition is the love of power William Hazlitt
Nothing humbler than Ambition, when it is about to climb Benjamin Franklin
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life John F. Kennedy
Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others Susan Sontag
He who aims high must dread an easy home and popular manners Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ambition, the desire of shining and outshining, was the beginning of sin in this world Thomas Carlyle
If you strive for the moon, maybe you'll get over the fence James Woods
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upwards on the miseries or cruelties of mankind Joseph Conrad
The same ambition can destroy or save,
And make a patriot as it makes a knave
Alexander Pope