Quotation about AMBITION

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)