After all these years, it's still amazing what Obama is allowed to get away with. He says low gas prices in 2009 were caused by a terrible economy, but then claims that the lower number of illegal aliens crossing the border is because of his border policies, not the same lousy economy.

Howie Carr | Ambition

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What is ambition? 'Tis a glorious cheat. Angels of light walk not so dazzlingly the sapphire walls of heaven.

Willis | Ambition

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Vaulting ambition which o'er leaps itself.

Shakespeare, William | Ambition

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Tis a common proof, that lowliness is Edward Young ambition's ladder, where to the climber upwards turns his face; but when he once attains the utmost round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks into the clouds scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend.

Shakespeare, William | Ambition

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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Lubbock, John | Ambition

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O cursed ambition, thou devouring bird, how dost thou from the field of honesty pick every grain of profit or delight, and mock the reaper's toil!

Harvard | Ambition

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Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

Gracian, Baltasar | Ambition

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No bounds his head long, vast ambition knows.

Rowe | Ambition

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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

Burton, Robert | Ambition

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Just as there are three R's there are also three A's of business life. They are: Ability, Ambition, and Attitude. Ability establishes what a worker does and will bring him a paycheck. Ambition determines how much he does and will get him a raise. Attitude guarantees how well he does.

Sheer, Wilbert E | Ambition

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Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shad

Shakespeare, William | Ambition

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Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.

Quarles | Ambition

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Ambition's like a circle on the water, which never ceases to enlarge itself, 'till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.

Shakespeare, William | Ambition

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Ambition: The glorious frailty of the noble mind.

Hoole | Ambition

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Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her tra

Penrose | Ambition

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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Wilde, Oscar | Ambition

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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

English, Thomas | Ambition

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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

Machiavelli, Niccolo | Ambition

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

Denham | Ambition

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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

Landor, Walter S. | Ambition

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Ambition is an idol, on whose wi

Southey, Robert | Ambition

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Ambition is a lust that's never quenched, grows more inflamed, and madder by enjoyment.

Otway | Ambition

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Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Winter, William | Ambition

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Airy ambition, soaring high.

Sheffield | Ambition

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Ah! curst ambition! to thy lures we o

Teckell | Ambition

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Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you.

Dryden, John | Ambition

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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Johnson, Samuel | Ambition

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