Think & Achieve by Elijah Chai - HTML preview

AMBITION

Quotes

1

Every man believes that he has a greater possibility.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

2

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

— Charles de Gaulle

3

As he was valiant, I honor him; but as he was ambitious, I slew him.

— William Shakespeare

4

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

— Walter Savage Landor

5

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

— Oscar Wilde

6

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another’s fame.

— Baltasar Gracian

7

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.

— Ben Jonson

8

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

— Samuel Johnson

9

A man’s worth is no greather than the worth of his ambitions.

— Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

10

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 Bruy re

11

Ambition hath no mean, it is either upon all fours or upon tiptoes.

— George Savile

12

Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.

— John Cowper Powys

13

Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?

— Robert Browning

14

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

15

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

— Thomas Alva Edison

16

Nothing is so commonplace as to wish to be remarkable.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

17

If Man, Ambition is the common’st thing:/ Each one, by nature, loves to be a King.

— Robert Herrick

18

One often goes from love to ambition, but one rarely returns from ambition to love.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

19

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

20

The treacheries of ambition never cease.

— Rubén Dario

Sayings

1

A woman who strives to be like a man lacks ambition.

2

Ambition lubricates the mind.

3

There’s always room at the top.

4

Where there’s a will there’s a way (or a beneficiary).

5

The way to go from rags to riches is to start by getting a decent set of rags.

6

Most people want to improve themselves, but not many want to work at it.

7

Ambitious people don’t make excuses.

Jokes

1

Judge: “Mr. Corbin, the police report says you’ve committed six burglaries in one week!”

Defendant: “That’s right, Your Honor--and if everyone worked as hard as I do, this recession would be behind us.”

2

The banker Salomon Rothschild was strolling down a crowded street in Vienna when he was jostled by a pickpocket. “Watch out!” warned his companion. “That fellow’s trying to steal your silk handkerchief.”

“So what?” said Rothschild with a shrug. “We all had to start somewhere.”