John Milton Quotes About Ambition

Quotes about: Ambition

• The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.

  John Milton

  Morning, Ambition, Men

  'Paradise Regained' (1671) bk. 4, l. 220

• Here we may reign secure; and in my choice
  To reign is worth ambition, though in hell:
  Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

  John Milton

  Crazy, Ambition, Mad

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 261

• Such joy ambition finds.

  John Milton

  Ambition, Joy

  1665 Satan. Paradise Lost (published 1667), bk.4, l.91-2.

• If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

  John Milton

  Ambition, Hands, Treasure

  John Milton (1785). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton. A New Edition. With Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton, ...”, p.92

• I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.

  John Milton

  Ambition, Deeds, Doers

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.242

• With diadem and sceptre high advanced,
  The lower still I fall; only supreme
  In misery; such joy ambition finds.

  John Milton

  Fall, Ambition, Joy

  1665 Satan. Paradise Lost (published 1667), bk.4, l.91-2.

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