Ambition
Quotes on Ambition
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet
What parish priest would not like to be Pope?
Voltaire (1694-1778) French philosopher, writer
It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, essayist Ambition.
An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French essayist, moralist
As he was valiant, I honour him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Brutus, Julius Caesar William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Irish philosopher, statesman
