Ambition Quote by Luc de Clapiers

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

— Anonymous

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

— Sophocles

The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune.

— Leon Battista Alberti

Fortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature's way, give their own characters The name of…

— Menander

Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he…

— Frederick Douglass

“To defeat Fortune, men must anticipate such evils before they arise, and take prudent steps to avoid them. When the waters have already risen,…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

— Solon

For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one…

— Solon

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

— Juvenal

“A world of wealth is trash if men are wanting; men who have no wealth never find fortune smiling as their strength deserves.”

— Aeschylus

“When bad fortune occurs, the unresourceful, unimaginative man looks about him to attach the blame to someone else; the resolute accepts misfortune and endeavors…

— Anne McCaffrey