Quotes About Ambition

Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.

The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days are gone. You shall be great without the help of any man, just as you are.

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.

We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

A man lusts to become a god... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?

A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.

America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.

The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

To the aircraft I aim, not the man.

A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.

Every Man is the Architect of his own Fortunes, but the Neighbours superintend the Construction.

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

Cooking today is a young man's game, I don't give a bollocks what anyone says.

By working one can bend fortune. She is fond of crafty men.

We are all self-made men and women, but only the successful take credit for it.

Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.

I grew up in New York wanting to be like those funny men in the movies and on the radio.

In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.

A great man may commence life in a hovel.

Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.

Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expect any result other than utter failure.

It's something I've always kicked around, not doing the eBook but the Rich Man, Poor Man thing.