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 2. All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage,and grow wiser and more serene.

 3. Ambition - A lust that is never quenched, grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

 4. Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.

 5. Ambition breaks the ties of blood,and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

 6. Ambition destroys its possessor.

 7. Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!Ambition: An over mastering desire to be vilified byenemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

 8. Ambition is a vice which often puts men upon doing themeanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

 9. Ambition is an idol, on whose wings Great minds are carried only to extreme; To be sublimely great or to be nothing.

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

11. Ambition is not what man does...but what man would do.

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

13. Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.

14. Ambition makes the same mistake concerning powerthat avarice makes concerning wealth.

15. Ambition, a proud covetousness, or a dry thirst of honour, a great torture of the mind, composed of envy, pride, and covetousness, a gallant madness, one defines it a pleasant poison.

16. Ambition's like a circle on the water, Which never ceases to enlarge itself, 'Till by broad spreading it disperses to nought.

17. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you As a hair clasp gathers the hair.

18. Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

19. Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured bythe horse-power of the understanding.

20. Enthusiasm is the mother of effort... Enthusiasm...the sustaining power of all great action.

21. Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.

22. Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

23. Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.

24. Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

25. Fling away ambition; by that sin fell the angels: how can man then, the image of his Maker, hope to win by it? 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.

26. He who possesses the source of Enthusiasm Will achieve great things.

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

28. Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

29. It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition that it never looks behind it.

30. It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

31. 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.

32. Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

33. One often passes from love to ambition, but one rarely returns from ambition to love.

34. 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.

35. Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of good-ness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life.

36. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.

37. The ambitious deceive themselves when they propose an end to their ambition; for that end, when attained, becomes a means.

38. The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.

39. The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it: enthusiasm signifies God in us.

40. The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

41. There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in anation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

42. There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.

43. Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

44. Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

45. To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

46. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

47. Too low they build who build beneath the stars.

48. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

49. Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

50. Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.

51. Zealots have an idol, to which they consecrate themselves high-priests, and deem it holy work to offer sacrifices of whatever is most precious.