Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.
Ambition Quotes
Shakespeare leads, followed by Milton, Pope, Cowper and the American educator William H. Crogman. The sourced lines are mostly unflattering. Wilde, in 1894, calls ambition the last refuge of the failure, and Bierce, in 1911, defines it as an overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. Burke, in Letters on a Regicide Peace (1796), puts it more neatly: ambition can creep as well as soar.
Flagged: a passage on moderation being a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, credited to Disraeli, is marked misattributed, and two passages of Dryden, one on ambition and gold, the other on the diadem as the centre of ambition, are disputed.
"To be useful to society" is the ambition, or excuse, of a prostitute.
Praise enough
To fill the ambition of a private man,
That Chatham's language was his mother-tongue.
I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.
I believe that goals are achieved when ambition is combined with skill and determination.
“Focus on yourself, your dreams, your goals, and your ambitions.”
Ultimately, when things start to improve, your ambitions do, too.
“Don’t circumscribe your own ambition – go for it – you might not get it – but go for it.”
Don’t use sentimental empathy on the youths to express your political ambitions.
Large ambitions can feel overwhelming, but tackling them bit by bit makes them more achievable.