1,853 Quotes About Ambition

Beware, Diomedês! Forbear, Diomedês! Do not try to put yourself on a level with the gods; that is too high for a man's ambition. The immortal gods are one race, men that walk upon the earth are another.

Have you ever had a dream so strong it slapped you in the face every time you looked away?

A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints needed for advancement.

Godly ambition makes us downwardly mobile.

When you set man against the vastness of the cosmos, the only thing left is humility, a virtue he often discards in the heat of ambition.

Ambition: it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

Ambition is disfigured into arrogance when it becomes unmoored from self-awareness, from a realistic assessment of one's competences.

Be daring.Be determined.

Trying to be more than human one becomes less.