Ambition | Proverbs in English

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All are desirous to win the prize.: *

Ambition has no rest.: Bulwer

Ambition hath one heel nailed in hell, Though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.: Lilly

Ambition is as hollow as the soul of an echo.: *

Ambition is no cure for love.: Scott

Ambition is the last infirmity of noble minds.: *

Ambition is the mind’s immodesty.: Davenant

Ambition is the soldier’s virtue.: Shakespeare

Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.: Beecher

Ambition is torment enough for an enemy.: *

Ambition knows no gorge but the grave.: Carl Seelbach

Ambition like a torrent ne’er looks back.: Ben Jonson

Ambition, thou powerful source of good or ill.: Young

Blind ambition quite mistakes her road.: Young

Blood only serves to wash ambition’s hands.: Byron

Black ambition stains a public cause.: Pope

By jumping at the stars you may fall in the mud.: *

Climb not too high lest the fall be the greater.: *

Earth’s worst tempters, gold and ambition.: Bulwer

Fling away ambition, by that sin fell the angels.: Shakespeare

He cannot see the river, his heart is set on leaping the dragon gate.: Chinese

He that cuts above himself will get splinters in his eye.: *

He that heweth above his height may have a chip in his eye.: *

He who would rise in the world should veil his ambition with the forms of humanity.: Chinese

He would fain fly but wants feathers.: *

He would open his hand in order to grasp the moon in the heavens, he would plunge into the sea to grasp leviathan.: Chinese

In heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell.: Southey

It is a mean ambition to be the ’squire of the company.: *

Proud ambition is but a beggar.: Daniel

The trap to the high born is ambition.: *

There is no eel so small but it hopes to become a whale.: German

There is no fir tree so small it does not expect to become a cedar.: German

There is nothing humbler than ambition when it is about to climb.: Franklin

Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life’s means.: Shakespeare

To take ambition from a soldier is to rob him of his spurs.: *

Vaulting ambition o’erleaps itself.: Shakespeare

Proverbs theme "Ambition" in English

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