Ambition Quote by Wilson Mizner

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his…

— Jean de la Bruyere

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of…

— Jean de la Bruyere

He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

— Lysander Spooner

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for…

— Abraham Lincoln

The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall…

— Samuel Smiles

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

— Diogenes

“A slave is one who sells his soul to save his life. A master is one who gives his life to save his soul.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.

— Octavia Butler

The master is a slave when he fears those whom he rules.

— Publilius Syrus