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Tag Name "Ambition" (1429)

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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
Alexander Pope
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
Alexander Pope
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No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake
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I would love to end the nuclear ambition of the Iranians without firing a shot, but you have to know who you're talking to and what they actually want, this is North Korea in the making.
Lindsey Graham
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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.
Alexander Herzen
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I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general government could ever feel to divest the States of the authorities of that description. The regulation of the mere domestic police of a State appears to me to hold out slender allurements to ambition.
Alexander Hamilton
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Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.
Alexander Hamilton
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Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined A sickly flame, which if not fed expires And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.
William Congreve
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Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave.
William Davenant
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Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour Ambition is not tir'd with toll nor cloy'd with power.
William Davenant
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Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.
Alex Flinn
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The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability
William Feather
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Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master.
Thomas Jefferson
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Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
William Hazlitt
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Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.
William Hazlitt
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The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
William Hazlitt
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But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.
Alberto Manguel
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Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible love makes class prejudice impossible love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised love converts enemies into friends.
William Jennings Bryan
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Be not content with the common place in character anymore than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment. Do not expect that you will make any lasting or very strong impression on the world through intellectual power without the use of an equal amount of conscience and heart.
William Jewett Tucker
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Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone best both for the body and the mind
Albert Einstein
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Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.
Albert Einstein
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Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.
Albert Einstein
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Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.
William Laud
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Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood the highest, envy.
William Lilly
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