Ambition Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are men who could neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of their duty; but this stern virtue is the growth of…

— Alexander Hamilton

Man must make his choice between ease and wealth; either may be his, but not both.

— Newell Dwight Hillis

“The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own…

— Bertrand Russell

A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty and obscurity…

— Confucius

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

— James A. Michener

Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their happiness is not in the taking and holding, but in the doing, the…

— Harry Marsh

I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others…

— Ayn Rand

A gentleman of ambition is aware of the people he wishes to be associated with both socially and commercially. He knows that moving through…

— Chris Murray