“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
“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
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
“any mean, ambitious man,...counts his losses more than his gains.” — Philippa Gregory 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
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
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
“A clever man would naturally have other interests, an ambitious man other hopes. . . . I thought that a fool would… — Emmuska Orczy 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
“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
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
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