Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting. -Anne Shirley
Category: Ambition Quotes
Ambition Quotes
Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good. -Adam Smith
Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good. -Adam Smith
There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped toward new ends. -Arthur C. Clarke
There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped toward new ends. -Arthur C. Clarke
I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. -Peter Straub
I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. -Peter Straub
Where there are large powers with little ambition… nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. -Henry Taylor
Where there are large powers with little ambition… nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. -Henry Taylor
The incentive to ambition is the love of power. -William Hazlitt
The incentive to ambition is the love of power. -William Hazlitt
Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible. -Richard Steele
Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible. -Richard Steele
I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go. -James R Cook
I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go. -James R Cook