Quotes about Ambition
Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men think all things would be very glorious if they might be done according to their mind. Perhaps, indeed, they would-but with their glory, not the glory of God.
- John Owen
Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity
- Vance Havner
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
- William Hazlitt
Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.
- Ayn Rand
Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously - and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply.
- George W. Bush
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
Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be.
- Og Mandino
Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
- Henry David Thoreau