- What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
* Bible -- Mark 8:36
- Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
* Robert Browning
- I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl. I want to rule the world.
* Madonna Louise Ciccione
- 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.
* Salvador Dali
- Hitch your wagon to a star.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
* Eric Hoffer
- 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 Bruyère
- If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
* Henry Miller
- As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
* William Shakespeare
- I charge thee, fling away ambition:
By that sin fell the angels.
* William Shakespeare
- And he that strives to touch the stars,
Oft stumbles at a straw.
* Edmund Spenser
- Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
* Jonathan Swift
- The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
* marquis de Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues
- Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
* Oscar Wilde
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