Samuel Johnson Ambition Quotes

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

- Samuel Johnson

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

- Samuel Johnson

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

- Samuel Johnson

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

- Samuel Johnson

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