Quotes on My Ambition

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

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

I never expected to be in the papers. I personally never expected to be in the papers. The height of my ambition for these books was, well frankly, to get reviewed. A lot of children's books don't even get reviewed.. forget good review, bad review. Personally, no, I never expected to be in the papers so it's an odd experience when it happens to you .

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

Big results require big ambitions.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.