Ambition

"Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend"
-Pierre Corneille

"Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds"
-J.M. Barrie

"On what strange stuff ambition feeds"
-Eliza Cook

"Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others"
-Susan Sontag

"Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes"
The glorious fault of Angels and of Gods"
-Alexander Pope

"Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking"
-Edward Dahlberg

"Ambition must be made to counteract ambition"
-James Madison

"Ambition can creep as well as soar"
-Edmund Burke

"Ambition is the ecclesiastical lust"
-Daniel Noonan

"Ambition never comes to an end"
-Yoshida Kenko

"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy"
-Charlie McCarthy

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition"
-Timothy Leary

"Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals"
-Sir John Denham

"Big results require big ambitions"
-James Champy

"Ambition has no rest"
-Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton

"By low ambition and the thirst of praise"
-William Cowper'

"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy"
-Charlie McCarthy