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Ambition

«Ambition is the ecclesiastical lust.»
Author: Daniel Noonan | About: Ambition | Keywords: ecclesiastical, lust
«Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose»
Author: Frank Tyger | About: Ambition
«Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue»
Author: Quintilian | About: Ambition | Keywords: Father of, The Father
«Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.»
Author: Walter Savage Landor (Writer) | About: Ambition | Keywords: avarice, masked
«Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.»
«Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.»
«Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.»
«Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.»
«Ambition is the last infirmity of noble minds.»
«Ambition is not a vice of little people»

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