“Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be.”
“Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their poetry.”
“Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.”
“If it is true that one is poor on account of all the things one wants, the ambitious and the avaricious languish in extreme poverty.”
“Which dreams, indeed, are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”
“But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.”