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Ambition Quotes by Lord Chesterfield
- Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to…
- If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
- If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their…
More Ambition Quotes
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions. — Marcus Aurelius
- All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to… — Paul Auster
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge,… — Charles Babbage
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for… — Pearl Bailey
- The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — Russell Baker
- The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory. — James A. Baldwin