Christian Nestell Bovee Ambition Quotations

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces.

Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims.

Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer's voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing.