Ambition Quote by victor essien

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

— Thomas Higgons

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

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

— Dorothy Height

“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition... I have no other so great as that of being truely esteemed of my fellow…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

“Greatness is a gift from God preceded only by ambition.”

— Alice Rovney

“The measure of a man is what he is willing to sacrifice for, commend his love towards, that he is still willing to lend…

— Tonny K. Brown

“The man of ambition thinks to find his good in the operations of others; the man of pleasure in his own sensations; but the…

— marcus aurelius

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

— Shakti Gawain

“Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success, for how may a man be sure that he…

— Napoleon Hill

“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition,” he wrote. “I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

— Frederick Douglass