Oscar Wilde Ambition Quotes

Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

- Oscar Wilde

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

- Oscar Wilde

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

- Oscar Wilde

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

- Oscar Wilde

If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what is the point of having our own?

- Oscar Wilde

Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

- Oscar Wilde

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

- Oscar Wilde

Once you know what failure feels like, determination chases success.

- Kobe Bryant

Stay original & Let the world copy you

- Anonymous

Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday!

- Kumara Sangakkara

Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.

- Anonymous

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

- William Winter

Ambition is an idol on whose wings great minds are carried to extremes, to be sublimely great, or to be nothing.

- Thomas Southern

What is ambition? 'Tis a glorious cheat. Angels of light walk not so dazzlingly the sapphire walls of heaven.

- Willis

Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself and falls on the other side

- William Shakespeare

Just as there are three R's there are also three A's of business life. They are: Ability, Ambition, and Attitude. Ability establishes what a worker does and will bring him a paycheck. Ambition determines how much he does and will get him a raise. Attitude guarantees how well he does.

- Wilbert E Sheer

Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shad

- William Shakespeare