Ambition Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll

“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 G. Ingersoll

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

“The greatness of a man depends on his ability to achieve is goals, vision and ambition”

— victor essien

The great ambition of women is to inspire love.

— Moliere

To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue;…

— Philip Sidney

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

— Shakti Gawain

Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.

— John Adams

People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

— James Wolcott

“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

What is ambition but desire of greatness? And what is greatness but extent of power?

— Thomas Higgons

“I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue, that the first object of laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.

— Warren G. Harding