Ambition

Famous quotes containing the word ambition:

“Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then; he a trifle younger than I. Even then, we were both ambitious; I, perhaps, quite as much so as he. With me, the race of ambition has been a failure—a flat failure; with him it has been one of splendid success.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“So far, ambition has only gotten me propped up on my elbow. When will it bring me to my feet?”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)