Quotes About Ambition

Every man is the artisan of his own fortune.

Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.

Self-made men often worship their creator.

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.

As for the common men apart, Who sweat to keep their common breath, And have no hour for books or art-- What dreams have these to hide from death!

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

I said to myself, 'You're a man from a humble background, what you didn't learn in school, you'll learn now. Catch up.

I made an enjoyable living as a very young man, but I think as I became more comfortable and knowledgeable about myself and what I wanted, I moved into acting.

The poorest man in the world is a man without a dream.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.

But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.

Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.

Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.

As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES.