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.
I am very happy. My only ambition is that the quality of my work should go ahead.
Dead love or dead ambition, say,
Which mourn we most?
Not much we weigh
Platonic friends.
My ambition is to try to get big enough to hear my music in other people's cars in traffic.
It’s so important to be yourself and follow those ambitions. Regardless of what people say.