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Quotes About Ambition

One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Young men preen. Old men scheme.
~ Mason Cooley
No man can go to Heaven, but everyman can build one!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Just like a mountain goat climbing very steep and dangerous land to lick salt from the rocks, man also should take high risks to get what he wants!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The big man in a small village is the big ship in a small lake! Let him sail to the vast oceans!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Boat is nothing without water and man without his dreams!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Countries keep on building higher and higher buildings, instead of building higher and higher men!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
In every height, man feels himself in the low; because man is greedy and unsatisfied!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Never let a little man to sit on a big chair; that would be a big disaster!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Realise well, proud little man that even the highest clouds don't shine! For above all things there lie brightest stars.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Sometimes man needs great failures today to accomplish great successes tomorrow!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
~ Michel de Montaigne
A young man ain't nothin' in the world these days
~ Mose Allison
I want to be the first black man on the moon
~ Muhammad Ali
A fearless man thrives on far horizons.
~ Napoleon Hill
The average person would have quit at the first failure. That's why there have been many average men and only one Edison.
~ Napoleon Hill
The space that every man occupies in the world is measured by the faith he expresses in connection with his aims and purposes.
~ Napoleon Hill
As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, "All mortal greatness is but disease.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.
~ Neil LaBute
Man must make his choice between ease and wealth; either may be his, but not both.
~ Newell Dwight Hillis
The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer.
~ Nick Tosches
The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn't have the fire to create from.
~ Nicolas Cage
I was never a man of great ambition I cried too easily I didn't have a head for science Words often failed me While others prayed I only moved my lips
~ Nicole Krauss
I'm too ambitious to give another man credit, even if that other man is only myself in disguise.
~ Norman Lock