Ambition Quote by John Webster Download Open image “Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.” — John Webster ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambition Duchess Great man Great men Madness Men
It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Professional ambition is expected of men but is optional—or worse, sometimes even a negative—for women. “She is very ambitious” is not a compliment in… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have is to so live and so improve himself in heart and brain as to be… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils. — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true… — Edward Bates Copy Share Image
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
A powerful portfolio of physiological and behavioural evidence now exists to support the case that fish feel pain and that this feeling matters. In… — John Webster Copy Share Image
“We make desire, not truth, the real clue to what’s valuable. If we desire something, then it has value; if not, we despise and… — John Webster Copy Share Image
When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons. — John Webster Copy Share Image
“In company with Christians down through the ages, we read…every passage of Scripture…out of the fact that for us, the center of Scripture is… — John Webster Copy Share Image
“Fellowship with God is what human beings are for. That is, we flourish as human beings if we live in free and joyful and… — John Webster Copy Share Image
“Pull and pull strongly for your able strength / Must pull down heaven upon me” — John Webster Copy Share Image
“Think't the best voyage that e'er you made like an irregular crab which, though’t goes backward, thinks that it goes right, because it goes… — John Webster Copy Share Image
“Why is it that we often go away from Scripture unmoved, unaffected, dull? In the end, it’s because we refuse to be schooled by… — John Webster Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
“I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.” — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I was always attracted most to joining City, and I am pleased to be at such a good club with such a big ambition… — Edin Dzeko Copy Share Image
Work towards your goal and dont watch the post size,its either they hate,or like you.there is no room for both sides. — Isaac Buabeng Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way. — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
