Oscar Wilde Quotes About Ambition

• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Positive

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 3 (1892)

• Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

  Oscar Wilde

  Determination, Ambition, Growth

• Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

  Oscar Wilde

  Work, Failure, Ambition

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

• Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Success, Ambition

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.615, Wordsworth Editions

• 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.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ambition, Progress, Kingdoms

• But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sad, Memories, Ambition

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.25, Oxford University Press on Demand

• You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ambition, Poor, Known

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.40, Oscar Wilde

• A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ambition, Sacrifice, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.472, OUP Oxford

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