Men often pass from love to ambition but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
There is however another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons eminent for their knowledge it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
I'm fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey that a man of similar ambition of similar intelligence makes. What sort of concessions does a woman have to make? Does she have to work 20 percent harder than a man?
Lincoln's stature and strength his intelligence and ambition - in short all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.
The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence ambition and aggressiveness.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition but I didn't know where to put it.
When I was young my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition the end to which every enterprise and labor tends and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
When ambition ends happiness begins.
Ambition is an idol on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.