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But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down.

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.

For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.

I strike the stars with by sublime head.

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we would storm heaven itself in our folly.

No steps backward.

I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light.

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

The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice A banner with the strange device, Excelsior!

The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one, May hope to achieve it before life be done, But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest of barren regrets.

He was utterly without ambition . He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.

Here may we reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Such joy ambition finds.

But what will not ambition and revenge Descend to? who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd, obnoxious first and last To basest things.

If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me, Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.

Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.

Aim at the sun and you may not reach it, but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself.