ambition Quotes

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.