Ambition

1. When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

                                                                        -Cicero, De Oratore

2. Hitch your wagon to a star.

                                                                   -Emerson, Society and

                                                                               Solitude

3. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

                                                                  -Longfellow, Driftwood

4. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

                                                                     -Milton, Paradise lost

5. When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:

    Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:

   Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;

   And Brutus is an honuorable man.

                                                                      -Shakespeare, Julius

                                                                      Caesar.  Act. IV. Sc. 3

6. If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

                                                                                 -Syrus, Maxims

7. Ambition destroys its processor.

                                                                          -The Talmud, Yoma

8. Ambition has but one reward for all:

    A little power, a little transient fame,

    A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

                                                                       -William Winter, The 

                                                                            Queen's Domain