Walter Scott Quotes About Ambition

Quotes about: Ambition

• Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail--
  Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well--
  Look to the helm, good master--many a shoal
  Marks this stern coast, and rocks, where sits the Siren
  Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.

  Walter Scott

  Ambition, Men, Rocks

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.686

• Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

  Walter Scott

  Humble, Ambition, Destiny

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

  Walter Scott

  Nature, Ambition, Perfection

• Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.

  Walter Scott

  Ambition, Serious Business, Toys

  Walter Scott (1845). “Ivanhoe: A Romance”, p.376

• Ambition is no cure for love!

  Walter Scott

  Ambition, Cures

  Sir Walter Scott (1849). “Select Poetical Works: Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, Lady of the Lake and Rokeby”, p.9

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