Ambition Quote by Francis Quarles

They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a…

— Robert Burton

Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them.

— William Safire

Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.

— Ayn Rand

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

Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores…

— Honore de Balzac

“You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

— Francis Bacon

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord." "It might to keep it open.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and…

— Anonymous

It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire of having more is common to…

— Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

“It was a sad truth that all the masses of men in their causes would be led by ambitious men, by power-hungry, cunningly self…

— Oakley Hall