-
What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
* Bible -- Mark 8:36
-
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
* Robert Browning
-
I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl. I want to rule the world.
* Madonna Louise Ciccione
-
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
* Salvador Dali
-
Hitch your wagon to a star.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
* Eric Hoffer
-
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.
* Jean de La Bruyère
-
If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
* Henry Miller
-
As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
* William Shakespeare
-
I charge thee, fling away ambition:
By that sin fell the angels.
* William Shakespeare
-
And he that strives to touch the stars,
Oft stumbles at a straw.
* Edmund Spenser
-
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
* Jonathan Swift
-
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
* marquis de Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues
-
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
* Oscar Wilde
|
