Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

I strike the stars with by sublime head.
[Lat., Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]

I strike the stars with by sublime head.
[Lat., Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]

Big results require big ambitions.

Big results require big ambitions.

Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms,
Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms,
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms,
Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms,
Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

We grow small trying to be great.

We grow small trying to be great.

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.