Ambition Quote by Francis Quarles

“We must limit the running to and fro which most men practise, rambling about houses, theatres, and marketplaces. They mind other men's business, and…

— Seneca

Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down by the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Men are in a restless pursuit after satisfaction and earthly things. They have no forethought for their eternal state, the present hour absorbs them.…

— Charles Spurgeon

Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Men are in a restless pursuit after satisfaction in earthly things. They will exhaust themselves in the deceitful delights of sin, and, finding them…

— Charles Spurgeon

For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within.

— William Shakespeare

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their…

— John Calvin

“This is all we can say about a certain category of men in view of the fulfillment of the times, a category that by…

— Julius Evola

Men are subject to powerful passions and appetites, and, if unrestrained, are capable of ruthlessly riding roughshod over their neighbors and the community at…

— William Barr

There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going.

— Gustave Flaubert

Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the…

— Bernard de Mandeville

For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease…

— Theodore White