Ambition Quote by Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.

— Anonymous

In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

— George Bernard Shaw

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself.…

— Marcus Aurelius

One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.

— D. H. Lawrence

Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

— St. Catherine of Siena

In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear adversity and prosperity.

— Philemon

“Man's merit lieth in service and virtue and not in the pageantry of wealth and riches.”

— Bahá'u'lláh

There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect…

— Aristotle

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe