AMBITION
Eager or inordinate desire, as for power, wealth, or distinction.
A strong desire to achieve something considered good or great.
Every eel hopes to become a whale. - German Proverb.
The same ambition can destroy or save,
and makes a patriot as it makes a knave.
- Alexander Pope(1688-1744)Essay of Man.
It is a laudable ambitions, that aims at being better than his neighbors.
- Ben Franklin(1706-1790) Poor Richard's Almanack
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on miseries or credulities of mankind.
- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)Personal Record
A man without ambition is like a woman without beauty.
- Frank Harris (1856-1931) Montes De Matador.
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
- Quintilian(40-c. 100)
The slave has but one master; the man of ambition has as many as there are people useful to his fortune.
- Jean De La Bruyere (1645-1696) Caracteres.
Ambition and Suspicion always together.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of dream.
- Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet, II, ii,268
Resource: page 1848, Quotations,(THE NEW INTERNATIONAL WEBSTER'S COMPREHENSIVE DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE)
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