John Milton Quotes on Ambition

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1. “Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.”

John Milton

Education, Virtue, Patriotism, Ambition, Legacy

2. “I thence invoke my thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.”

John Milton

Inspiration, Ambition, Poetry, Creativity, Literary Aspiration

3. “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

Childhood, Potential, Wisdom, Ambition, Personal Growth

4. “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

Ambition, Power, Hell, Heaven, Pride

5. “Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind.”

John Milton

Fame, Human Nature, Vanity, Ambition, Weakness

6. “Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise.”

John Milton

Fame, Motivation, Ambition, Spirit, Achievement

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

John Milton

Ambition, Fall, Power, Misery, Paradox

8. “Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.”

John Milton

Satan, Evil, Ambition, Hell, Cosmic Conflict

9. “Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.”

John Milton

Morality, Ambition, Peace, Virtue, Worldly Power

10. “Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.”

John Milton

Danger, Failure, Ambition, Human Nature, Metaphor

11. “Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.”

John Milton

Pride, Fall, Divine Punishment, Hell, Ambition