Quotes about Ambition
Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.
— Mark Twain
Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
— Watchman Nee
It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.
— George Bernard Shaw
Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
— Charles Kettering
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
— Calvin Coolidge
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