Quotes about Ambition
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
Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.
— Charles Spurgeon
The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.
— George Bernard Shaw
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
— Albert Camus
Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Ben's chances in the campaign.
— Terri Blackstock