Quotes About Ambition

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.

I was always the front man for what I was doing from when I was 6.

I was the front man of the choir and then when I was 12 and I was the leadsinger of my highschool groups.

Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?

It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition.

The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.

I would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man.

Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is to be concluded is that they are aware of their mediocrity.

Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

I want a big career, a big man, and a big life. You have to think big - that's the only way to get it... I just couldn't stand being anonymous.

Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.

And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition of a few, whom he can curb with ease in many ways.

To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must be found in the studying.