Ambitious Man Quotes

19 quotes by 16 authors

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one… — Charles Baudelaire
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant… — Robert Burton
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his… — Jean de la Bruyere
When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch himself on a… — Alexis de Tocqueville
When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for its own sake.… — Rajneesh
The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the want of a… — Alexander Hamilton
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment... — Edgar Allan Poe
But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it. — Mary Stewart
Politically, the goal of todayâ€™s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically , the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically , it is the erosion of… — Ayn Rand
Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate. — Ayn Rand
The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage. — Philibert Joseph Roux
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity… — Edgar Allan Poe
One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of… — Bobby Flay
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offence to keep… — Joseph Story
It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious… — William Osler
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. — William Penn
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position. — Jean de la Bruyere
Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular. — Lord North
An educated man without ambition is as badly off as an ambitious man without education. — Vikrant Parsai

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