Quotes About Ambition

(Men without ambition are boring) And that attitude, mistress, is why the females of your kind continue to struggle for equality. And why they continue to fail.

I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize.

Man seeks his own good at the whole world's cost.

The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.

It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.

If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.

The trouble with men is that they are mean-they may mean, but they don't move.

If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . he will be surrounded by grandeur.

It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit.

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made

It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.

Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.

I love men who have a lot going on in their lives, like I do.

A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.

As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.

Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir. The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

Anybody can be a halfway man, but the one who rises above this class is the one who keeps everlastingly pushing.

I think Tiger Woods is a determined young man who really wants to play.

I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, that I should the least wish to resemble.

Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams .