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

No bounds his headlong, vast ambition knows. -Rowe.

O cursed ambition, thou devouring bird, how dost thou from the field of honesty pick every grain of profit or delight, and mock the reaper's toil! -Harvard

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 shadow. -Shakespeare

Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself. -Shakespeare

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

What's all the gaudy glitter of a crown? What but the glaring meteor of ambition, that leads the wretch benighted in his errors, points to the gulf and shines upon destruction? -Brooke

Why dost thou court that baneful pest, ambition? -Potter

You have no friends among the ambitious. -Ron Randall

Ambition is the last refuge of failure. -Oscar Wilde

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

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. -Joseph Conrad

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly. -Horace

Ambition is not a vice of little people. -Michel de Montaigne

To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court. -Philip Sidney

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. -Publius Syrus

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. -Cicero

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. -Henry Ward Beecher

We grow small by trying to be great. -E. Stanley Jones

Too low they build who build below the skies. -Edward Young

Hitch your wagon to a star. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted to the love of glory. -Cicero

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below. -Lord Byron

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. -William Shakespeare