Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Here may we reign secure, and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell.
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Here may we reign secure, and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell.
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

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

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

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

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

For all may have,
If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.

For all may have,
If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.