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Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

Big results require big ambitions.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration, the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.

I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk- seeking profile that you need.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

We grow small trying to be great.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

Ambition never comes to an end.

A slave has but one master. An ambitious man has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.