Ambition Quote by Anthony Trollope

An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.

— Taylor Caldwell

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.

— Boris Yeltsin

a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.

— Ellen Glasgow

A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot, and a true…

— Edmund Burke

You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in…

— Horace

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of…

— Seneca the Younger

“This effort to appear dumb—or to put a positive spin on it, to “be a man of the people”—takes a lot of work that…

— Stuart Rojstaczer

A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for…

— Plato

“Behind his careful political flippancy and cynicism one might also detect a certain careless sincerity, which would probably in the long run save him…

— Hector Hugh Munro

Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to…

— Arthur Schopenhauer