Quote by Edmund Burke
Ambition can creep as well as soar. - Edmund Burke

Ambition can creep as well as soar. – Edmund Burke

Other quotes by Edmund Burke

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. – Edmund Burke

Category:
Promises
Read Quote

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. – Edmund Burke

Category:
Art
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Ambition
category

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Category:
Ambition

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Category:
Ambition

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Category:
Ambition

Ambition is not what man does… but what man would do. – Robert Browning

Category:
Ambition

Random Quotes

I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status. – Sophia Bush

Category:
Intelligence

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning. – Ivy Baker Priest

Category:
Goodbye

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. – Thomas Fuller

Category:
Promises

I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. – Christina Aguilera

Category:
Home