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Quotations about ambition

Mark TwainKeep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

 - Mark Twain

Tags:   ambition  greatness  negativity  

John AdamsA pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

 - John Adams

Tags:   ambition  attention  writing  

Niccolo MachiavelliIt is a true observation of ancient writers, that as men are apt to be cast down by adversity, so they are easily satiated with prosperity, and that joy and grief produce the same effects. For whenever men are not obliged by necessity to fight they fight from ambition, which is so powerful a passion in the human breast that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

 - Niccolò Machiavelli

Tags:   adversity  ambition  prosperity  

David HumeWhere ambition can be so happy as to cover its enterprises even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of all human passions.

 - David Hume

Tags:   ambition  motivation  

Michel de MontaigneAmbition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude; and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place; and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.

 - Michel de Montaigne

Tags:   ambition  glory  

Michel de MontaigneIf love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.

 - Michel de Montaigne

Tags:   ambition  love  

Helen KellerCharacter cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

 - Helen Keller

Tags:   ambition  character  suffering