Every Man Has Ambition Quotes

#1. Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

Oscar Wilde

#2. There is no need, however, to be angry at this ambition of theirs
which may be forgiven; for every man ought to be loved who says and manfully pursues and works out anything which is at all like wisdom: at the same time we shall do well to see them as they really are.

Plato

#3. The only time that my wife and I had a simultaneous orgasm was when the judge signed the divorce papers.

Woody Allen

#4. To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

Henry Drummond

#5. Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

Mark Twain

#6. Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition," he wrote. "I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#7. Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.

Robert A. Heinlein

#8. One by one, the moths of the night took their release. And she watched them float off like butterflies, silhouetted in the glow of morning.

Ellison Blackburn

#9. Lagos is a metropolis of almost twenty million people, with more energy than London, more entrepreneurial spirit than New York, and so people come up with all sorts of ways to make a living.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#10. America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

George W. Bush

#11. Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.

Orison Swett Marden

#12. It would have been a wonderful wedding - had it not been mine.

Erma Bombeck

#13. When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best athlete in the world.

Katarina Witt

#14. When you raise an animal, you live it like your own child.

Deb Caletti

#15. In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance achieved in the quest of pure knowledge will sooner or later play its part in the service of man.

Ernest Starling

#16. Every man has an ambition. Let it be a good one. Just drive toward it with enthusiasm.

Debasish Mridha

#17. Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.

A.G. Street

#18. Nobody in Colonial America, to be sure, believed that society owed every child the ultimate in education, but intelligence, industry, and thrift combined with ambition got many a poor man's son into the colonial colleges.

Louis B. Wright

#19. Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson