Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes About Ambition

Quotes about: Ambition

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

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America

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

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Stars, Powerful, Passion

• Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Ambition, Ideas

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America

• I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Lying, Ambition, Light

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.157

• Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Ambition, Cradle, Graves

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