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Quotes about Ambition
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“Ambition never comes to an end.”
“Hasty climbers have sudden falls.”
“We grow small trying to be great.”
“Big results require big ambitions.”
“Ambition can creep as well as soar.”
“When ambition ends, happiness begins.”
“Ambition is the last refuge of failure.”
“Ambition is not a vice of little people.”
“Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.”
“Men would be angels, angels would be gods.”
“What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.”
“I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.”
“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.”
“Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds.”
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
“If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.”
“Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.”
“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
“He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.”
“Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.”
“'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!”
“Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.”
“Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.”
“Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
“So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.”
“The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.”
“I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”
“When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.”
“As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.”
“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”