Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
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.
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.
The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.
We grow small trying to be great.
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
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