Ambition Quote by Marcus Aurelius

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The noble type of man feels himself to be the determiner of values, he does not need to be approved of, he judges 'what…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse. . .…

— Confucius

That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely…

— James Anthony Froude

A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than…

— Christian D. Larson

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“No man can fully be Sovereign who does not have goals, ambitions, and a desire to fulfill the mission of stepping into the noble…

— Ryan Michler

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favor cannot satisfy him

— Samuel Johnson

The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.

— Xunzi

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

— Ernest Hemingway