Ambition Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
Ambition is the mind’s immodesty.
Sir William Davenant
Ambition, a proud covetousness, or a dry thirst of honour, a great torture of the mind, composed of envy, pride, and covetousness, a gallant madness, one defines it a pleasant poison.
Robert Burton
The passion of ambition is the same in a courtier, a soldier, or an ecclesiastic; but from their different educations and habits, they will take very different methods to gratify it.
Lord Chesterfield
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back;
And is a swelling, and the last affection
A high mind can put off.
Ben Jonson
The very substance of the ambition is merely the shadow of a dream. . . . I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow’s shadow.
Shakespeare
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulties of mankind.
Joseph Conrad
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself—The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
H.W. Beecher
But what will not ambition and revenge
Descend to? Who aspires must down as low As high he soar’d.
Milton
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices: so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
Swift
Ambition’s less than littleness.
Byron
Look not too high, lest a chip fall in your eye.
Thomas Dykes
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
Benjamin Franklin
For mortal daring nothing is too high. In our blind folly we storm heaven itself.
Horace
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Longfellow
O fading honours of the dead! O high ambition, lowly laid!
Scott
From disappointment and disgrace, who run Ambition’s rapid course.
Smollett
