Walter Scott Quotes about Ambition

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

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

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

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