It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book.
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.
Presidential ambition is a disease which can only be cured by embalming fluid.
Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours-ambition is the serious business of life.
From the standpoint of the present, the future is always a derangement of ambitions.
Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.
Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.
In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.
Security doesn't rob ambition; the illusion of security robs ambition.
"Ambition, Rose. It squeezes us into corners and turns out ugly shapes."
I shivered in the knowledge of the futility of all ambition.