Quotes about Ambition
A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: chart your course, set your sail, position your rudder, and proceed.
- Thomas Monson
No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.
- John Adams
By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Without a goal we are much like the man with a boat and nowhere to go. Goals give us the drive and energy we need to remain on track long enough for their accomplishment.
- Earl Nightingale
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
- Edmund Burke
Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.
- Aristotle
No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.
- Livy
I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.
- Cicero
The poorest man in the world is a man without a dream.
- Myles Munroe
A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.
- John Adams