Ambition Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about ambition.

Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker

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Any woman who aspires to behave like a man, surely lacks ambition.

Jose María de Pereda

Jose María de Pereda

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He who aspires to acquire wealth or honors does not know how to love.

Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

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I have no ambitions. Being a poet is not an ambition of mine, but my way of being alone.

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

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Ambition often leads people to perform the vilest tasks. That's why, to climb, the same posture is adopted as for crawling.

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

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Set in gold the bird's wings, and it will never fly to the sky again.

Voltaire

Voltaire

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In the disdain of ambition, one finds one of the essential principles of happiness on earth.