Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them. — William Safire Copy Share Image
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Pep Guardiola is a very ambitious manager; that's a reason why he has been able to win all the trophies he has… — Gabriel Jesus Copy Share Image
It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the… — William Osler Copy Share Image
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
Arsene Wenger is an ambitious manager, and he knows deep in his heart that he needs five world-class players to compete among… — Patrick Vieira Copy Share Image
The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically , the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically , it is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man… — John Donne Copy Share Image
A man should know about himself two or three things: whether he is a coward; whether he is an honest man or… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Hemans gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men who would involve their country in civil wars, and all… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitious man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular. — Lord North Copy Share Image
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Koreans are ambitious, man. It means a lot to my parents that I do the work that I do and it has… — Sandra Oh Copy Share Image
“What's an ambitious man but a player, Borgia—a player on a grand scale and the world his card game?” — Hella S. Haasse Copy Share Image
“any mean, ambitious man,...counts his losses more than his gains.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
An educated man without ambition is as badly off as an ambitious man without education. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
When ambitious men find an open passage, they are rather busy than dangerous; and if well watched in their proceedings, they will… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is devastating, losing a parent. I don't really know what the effect is, but I suppose people might call me an… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Whenever you think of Lincoln as a historian, in his own mind, he becomes the Great Emancipator. This is his role in… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
“A clever man would naturally have other interests, an ambitious man other hopes. . . . I thought that a fool would… — Emmuska Orczy Copy Share Image
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For men tied fast to the absolute, bled of their differences, drained of their dreams by authoritarian leeches until nothing but pulp… — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
“When they saw him making money, they said, "He is a man of business." When they saw him scattering his money about,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“He was a secretive man, who kept his own counsel. He was an ambitious man of humble origins, with colossal designs on… — Daniel Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
![“They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.” quote by Robert Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/68e/robert-burton-10069_ambition_they-i-e-ambitious-men-may-not-cease-but_1248849.jpg)
