Quotes About Ambition

I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.

Anybody who can drive and doesn't come out of it a rich man is a fool.

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

I believe in a man and a woman being equal. I really believe that we can do anything we set our minds to.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine

The man who actually knows just what he wants in life has already gone a long way toward attaining it.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible.

No man may earn his heart's desire, lest first he brave the smoke and fire

Women Who Seek Equality With Men Lack Ambition

Even though a man may be unable to attain such a height of sanctity, he ought to desire it, so as to do at least in desire what he cannot carry out in effect.

I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.

I'm a self-made man. Who else would help?

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

It is the success which makes great men.

Great men have big failures.

It's important for everybody to have somewhere to go. Men and women need purpose [in life].

Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

It is also a natural thing for a serious young man that he should form for himself as precise an idea as possible of the goal of his desires.

The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.