Ambition is a double-edged sword It can help us as motivation to achieve our goals, but it can also lead us to the precipice of losing our humility, then, there are those who allow themselves to be blinded by their desires and seek to conquer more and more things regardless of passing over others, because it creates a void that cannot be filled.
Great Quotes and Thoughts on Ambition
As ambition is an innate feeling of people, we bring below a list with the most famous quotes about ambition to know its positive and negative side
one. If I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to rise. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Hate is a feeling that should not be harbored in the heart.
2. Ambition is more dissatisfied with what it does not have than satisfied with what it has. (Fénelon)
Being ambitious is not bad if done in a good way.
3. We alth is like s alt water; the more you drink, the thirstier you get. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
If you don't know how to control your ambition for we alth, it will control you.
4. Ambition is like a torrent: it never looks back. (Ben Johnson)
Beware of ambition, because if you don't know how to handle it, it will take you down deep paths.
5. Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. (Elvis Presley)
You have to go little by little with your ambition. It's a roller coaster.
6. Ambition is a vice but it can be the mother of virtue. (Quintilian)
Ambition is as good or bad as the use to which it is put.
7. The ambition for power is a weed that only grows in the abandoned lot of an empty mind. (Ayn Rand)
Power only develops when there is nothing else to think about.
8. The supreme wisdom is to have dreams big enough to keep track of while pursuing them. (William Faulkner)
You have to be very intelligent to know how to fight for your dreams and not abandon them halfway.
9. He covets honor, not honors. (Guicciardini)
Move slowly and don't be too ambitious.
10. To be seen is the ambition of ghosts; to be remembered, that of death. (Anonymous)
Ambition can also lead to death.
eleven. The ultimate goal of the ambitious is not to acquire a thing of value, but to be more esteemed than others. (Max Scheler)
The ambition of wanting to be recognized is the one that hurts the most.
12. In the contempt of ambition lies one of the essential principles of happiness on earth. (Voltaire)
To control greed and live with it in a good way is to live free and happy.
13. Ambition is the last refuge of failure. (Oscar Wilde)
Unsuccessful people are those who seek ambition as their abode.
14. What is love? What is creation? What is longing? What is star? - so asks the last man, and blinks. (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
To an ambitious person, simple things seem boring and insignificant.
fifteen. Any woman who aspires to behave like a man surely lacks ambition. (Dorothy Parker)
Femininity is something very beautiful that a woman should never lose.
16. A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere. (Sean Hampton)
Well-defined ambition is an incentive that helps fulfill dreams.
17. Start once and for all to be who you are, instead of calculating who you will be (Frank Kafka)
Don't live the future, because it may not come. Just focus on the present.
18. There will be no laughter; there will be no art; neither literature nor science; there will only be an ambition for power, each day in a more subtle way. (George Orwell)
Refers to the scope of the ambition.
19. Those who constantly want to "reach higher" have to say that one day vertigo will invade them. (Milan Kundera)
You are not always on top.
twenty. Being a poet is not my ambition, it is my way of being alone. (Fernando Pessoa)
It's good to be alone with yourself.
twenty-one. Learn to limit your ambitions; it is a fatal delirium to sigh for what cannot be had. (Pindar)
Do not aspire to what is impossible to obtain.
22. The ambitious use the thing as an occasion to overcome the feeling of inferiority as a result of constantly comparing themselves. (Max Scheler)
Comparing yourself to others is a double-edged sword.
23. The ambition to dominate over spirits is the most powerful of all passions. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
Wanting to know more of what is unknown is one of the ambitions that dominates the world.
24. Who wants everything, loses everything. (Saying)
If you want more than you have, you risk losing it all.
25. Pride and ambition will always be a barrier between man and God; they are a drawn veil before the celestial flashes, and God cannot make use of the blind to make light understood. (Allan Kardec)
It refers to ambition as an unworthy act before God.
26. I don't understand why he who is happy seeks greater happiness. (Cicero)
When you have something, you usually want more.
27. I believe there is no limit to ambition, and if you want something, with ambition you make it happen, so go for it. (Rex Orange County)
With ambition everything is achieved.
28. Ambition is the only power that can fight against love. (Colley Cibber)
Ambition and love always clash.
29. And what is the great evil of the world? I have it very clear: the ambition of power and money. She is the mother of all the misfortunes that have happened and will happen. (Cinchona)
The greed for power and money has become a plague on society.
30. The abuse of greatness comes when clemency is divorced from power. (William Shakespeare)
Refers to the greatness of power.
31. No man should try to make a profit at the expense of another person's ignorance. (Cicero)
Nothing that threatens the integrity of a person can be beneficial.
32. It is well known that ambition can fly as well as crawl. (Edmund Burke Churchill)
Being ambitious can take a person to heaven or hell.
33. The greatest risk is not that we aim too high and fail, but that we aim too low and succeed. (Michelangelo Buonarroti)
There are very low ambitions.
3. 4. I would sacrifice my existence, before casting a stain on my public life that could be interpreted as ambition. (Jose de San Martin)
For many people, ambition is a sin.
35. Ambition tends to lead people to execute the most vile tasks. For this reason, to climb, the same posture is adopted as to crawl. (Jonathan Swift)
Out of ambition, people make the worst mistakes.
36. There are four types of people in the world: those in love, the ambitious, the observers and the imbeciles. The happiest are the morons. (Hipólito Taine)
There are people who live very happily since excessive ambition is not part of their life.
37. Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. (Salvador Dali)
Ambition with intelligence is what is really important.
38. All ambitions are legitimate, except those that are built on the misery or gullibility of humanity. (Joseph Conrad)
When greed causes harm to other people, then it is useless.
39. Power changes everything to the point that it's hard to tell who are the heroes and who are the villains. (Libba Bray)
Power destroys everything.
40. When gold goes ahead, all doors open. (William Shakespeare)
Money buys everything.
41. Interest speaks all languages and plays all roles, even disinterested. (François de la Rochefoucauld)
Interest is always present in ambition.
42. The ambitious is a slave to what he expects, the free man is the one who expects nothing. (Young)
An ambitious person will always be a slave to greed.
43. The time when you could hide your ambition has definitely passed. Now your only refuge is power. (Tacit)
Those who hold power run the risk of holding on to it forever.
44. The suffering of some can be caused by the ambition of others. (Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
If ambition harms another, then it is not the way to go.
Four. Five. Who insists on hitting the moon with a stone will not succeed, but he will end up knowing how to handle the slingshot. (Arabic proverb)
When you work on something, the result is worth it.
46. A Russian proverb says that he who chases several hares at once catches none. (Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky)
When you do several things at the same time, many things can go wrong.
47. There is always in the human soul a passion to go hunting for something. (Charles Dickens)
Ambition is something that is born with people.
48. Ambition is not what man does... but what man is going to do. (Robert Browning)
Human beings are always looking for new ambitions.
49. Ambition is but the shadow of a dream. (William Shakespeare)
When one goes in search of a dream, ambition always appears.
fifty. The feeling of being able to decide the fate of many people that one did not even know was prodigious. He wasn't sure if the pleasure depended only on the notion that he enjoyed power, or on using it. (Jerzy Kosinski)
Being able to decide for others is an ambition that many dream of having.
51. My ambition is limited by my laziness. (Charles Bukowski)
Whoever is lazy never gets anywhere.
52. Ambition is the dung of glory. (Pietro Aretino)
The path of excessive ambition is littered with rubbish.
53. The ambitious climb up high and dangerous stairs and never worry about how he is going to get down. The desire to climb has canceled in him the fear of falling. (Thomas Adams)
An ambitious person can lose their fear.
54. The ambition to have power and money often serves to cover deficiencies that cannot be acquired with material goods. (Fernando Savater)
Money is not synonymous with happiness.
55. Blood serves only to wash the hands of ambition. (Lord Byron)
On the path of ambition anything can happen.
56. Rarely if ever the ambition is fulfilled other than with third party damage. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Greed usually does a lot of damage.
57. Ambition is for amateurs. (Michael Wincott)
Self-confident people know how far to give room to ambition.
58. My ambition has always been to make dreams come true. (Bill Gates)
Making a dream come true is a form of ambition.
59. What would rock and roll be without ambition? Just madness, danger and fun? (Pete Wentz)
In the world of music there are also many ambitions.
60. Once ambition has reached the summit, it yearns to descend. (Corneille)
You have to be careful what you wish for.
61. We have to reject everything that limits us. (Richard Bach)
Limitations do a lot of damage.
62. Power and desire go hand in hand. They're made of the same damn stuff. The second depends on the first, and vice versa. (Donato Carrisi)
Power without desire does not exist and desire without power does not evolve.
63. The most bitter pain among men is that of aspiring to much and not being able to do anything. (Herodotus)
You always dream of going far, but the reality is different.
64. The slave has only one master; the ambitious have so many that there are always useful people for his fortune. (Jean de la Bruyère)
Ambition has many owners.
65. The ambition to win is fine and very he althy, and I understand that, but my thing has always been to avoid making a fucking fool of myself. (Michael Robinson)
Refers to ambition well carried out.
66. Ambition often makes traitors. (Cristina II)
Ambition and betrayal often accompany each other.
67. Seek enough, seek enough. And you don't want more. What happens from there is burden, not relief; weighs down instead of lifting. (San Agustin)
You have to be happy with what you have.
68. The ego is always searching. It seeks to add something more of this or that to complete itself. This explains his compulsive concern for the future. (Eckhart Tolle)
The ego leads people to be unhappy.
69. You are not ambitious: you are content to be happy. (Jorge Luis Borges)
True happiness is something you can't buy.
70. Ambition can make you touch the sky. (Lao Tzu)
Being powerful is a dream that many want to achieve.
71. I'd rather be the first man here than the second in Rome. (Julius Caesar)
It is good to have only what is really necessary.
72. Those individuals were connected by invisible threads to a certain dangerous… Power… (Tom Wolfe)
Power is something that blinds and sweetens.
73. What others have achieved, can always be achieved. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
Successful people are an example to follow.
74. If you are looking for the most essential, with nothing more ambition, Mama Nature gives it to you. (Unknown)
Simple ambition pays off.
75. The poor is not the one who has little, but the one who wants more. (Lucius Anneo Seneca)
The greed to have more is synonymous with poverty.
76. Seeking serenity seems to me a more reasonable ambition than seeking happiness. And perhaps serenity is a form of happiness. (Jorge Luis Borges)
Ambition is also used to achieve useful things.
77. It's a '78 Pontiac Firebird. The car I've always wanted, and now I have it… I'm helluva! (Kevin Spacey)
Achieving what you aspire to can bring lasting happiness.
78. A man is not unhappy because of ambition, but because it devours him. (Montesquieu)
Greed is a monster that devours all.
79. The ambitious, to achieve his goal, must lower himself as much as he has tried to raise his sights, and no matter how high he may be, humble himself to the vilest jobs. (John Milton)
Refers to how vile ambition is.
80. Materialism and greed is already a way of life for the human being who will soon be consumed by it. (R.H. Perez)
Many people have found a way of life in greed and material things.
81. Achievements result from the work that ambition does. (Adam Ant)
Ambition leads to lasting success only when done correctly.
82. It is well known that ambition can fly as well as crawl. (Edmund Burke Churchill)
Greed can make you laugh as well as cry.
83. He coveted we alth as an instrument of power over men; He would have liked to shake up half the world, make a lot of noise, have three secretaries under him, and give a big political dinner once a week. (Gustave Flaubert)
Ambition can only be a dream.
84. He who covets what belongs to others, loses his own early. (Phaedrus)
You should not focus on what others have.
85. To achieve anything you set your mind to, you first need ambition, then talent, knowledge, and finally opportunity. (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
For many people, ambition is what counts.
86. I consider braver the one who conquers his desires than the one who conquers his enemies, since the hardest victory is the victory over oneself. (Aristotle)
Overcoming internal fears is the war worth winning.
87. Man can climb to the highest peaks, but he cannot live there for long. (George Bernard Shaw)
Good things don't last forever.
88. Greed and ambition freeze the heart.
Keep things out of your life that hurt you.
89. Be fearful when others are greedy, and only greedy when others are fearful. (Warren Buffett)
Life offers you choices and you choose.
90. Ambition is such a powerful passion in the human being, that no matter how high we reach, we are never satisfied. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Ambition is never satisfied, you always go for more.