Ambition Quote by Jack London

“Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends in this way to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of…

— George Eliot

“if you desire within your heart, riches, to help the hungry, the unclothed, the sick, the afflicted, the imprisoned, you will receive beyond measure,…

— TJR Senior

“I have never held myself back because of poverty or the judgment of man to get a job completed. My ability, my heart, and…

— Patricia H. Graham

“There's a reason for every journey, and mine was prompted by boredom and the recklessness of youth, by a wish to break the bounds…

— Walter Moers

“This is what opportunity brings with it. It's the self-determination of man. Every man in the course of his life eternal life undergoes countless…

— Jaroslav Hašek

“I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his work, the…

— Albert Camus

“His life had been spent pursuing excellence and amassing a great fortune, but now that it was ending, there was no one he was…

— Steven Decker

“Well, I had often pondered all this, not without an intense longing sometimes to turn to and do something real for once, to be…

— Hermann Hesse

“The experiences, the lessons, and the defeats, They were all necessary for me to be me, took me a while being blind before i…

— Michael Perez

It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes,…

— Seneca the Younger

“Once upon a time, there was a King who walked astride his world - here, there and everywhere. He became poor in order to…

— David Mains

“Is it not the disparity of wealth that consumes the willing soul. Rather, the golden keys of opportunity clamor softly with fraught anxiety of…

— Joel T. McGrath