Ambition

Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.  ~ Mark Twain
 

Ambition is the last refuge of failure.  ~ Oscar Wilde
 

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.  ~ Thomas Jefferson
 

A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions  ~ Marcus Aurelius
 

If ambition doesn't hurt you, you haven't got it.  ~ Kathleen Norris
 

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.  ~ Abraham Lincoln
 

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. ~ Oscar Wilde
 

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
 

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.  ~ Henry Ford
 

Nothing arouses ambition so mush as the trumpet clang of another's fame.  ~ Baltasar Gracian
 

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.  ~ Henry Ward Beecher
 

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.  ~ Oscar Wilde
 

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.  ~ Bob Dylan
 

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.  ~ Samuel Johnson
 

You have to think anyway, so why not think big.  ~ Donald Trump
 

I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.  ~ Clare Boothe Luce
 

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.  ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.  ~ Salvador Dalí
 

Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.  ~ Stanislaw J. Lec
 

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.  ~ Oscar Wilde
 

Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus.  ~ Susan Longacre
 

Ambition can creep as well as soar.  ~ Edmund Burke
 

Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.  ~ James Russell Lowell
 

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.  ~ Walter Savage Landor
 

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.  ~ Maya Angelou
 

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.  ~ William Shakespeare
 

Ambition is destruction, only competence matters.  ~ Jill Robinson
 

Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.  ~ Pierre Corneille
 

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.  ~ Benjamin Franklin