Ambition Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“A capable, clear-eyed sovereign, she knew how to build a fleet, suppress an insurrection, control a currency, alleviate a famine. An eminent Roman general…

— Stacy Schiff

“To be a mother is the greatest vocation in the world. No being has a position of such great power and influence. She holds…

— Hannah Whitall Smith

Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest…

— Thomas Paine

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for…

— Henry Cabot Lodge

“She was a child of fire, after all: wayward and unpredictable and sometimes dangerous. She could wreak havoc or she could beat back the…

— Sharon Shinn

Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Anyone who can conquer her heart can conquer the world.

— Anonymous

“She had conquered them, as she would conquer so many in the years to come, by goodness rather than strength. It is a sorrowfully…

— William Napier

“America stands before the world as an impetuous void, a fatality without substance. Nothing prepared her for hegemony; yet she tends toward it, not…

— Emil Cioran

“She is very ambitious” is not a compliment in our culture.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

“She would not be robbed of her ability to support herself, to do good work in the world, justly, compassionately.”

— Marge Piercy

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

— Leigh Hunt