Quotes About Ambition

I had no desire to crash a man's world.

Stern men with empires in their brains.

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is

I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.

You know, there's nobody where I've said, 'Man, I really want that guy's career.' I mean, each of us has to make our own go of it.

Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.'

To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.

I saw a man pursuing the horizon;Round and round they sped.I was disturbed at this;I accosted the man."It is futile," I said,"You can never-""You lie," he cried,And ran on.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.

The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.

The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; and the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today there used to be'.

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.

Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything.