Quotes on Ambitious Man

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the want of a certain balance, and that mutual control indispensable to a wise administration. They were convinced that popular assemblies are frequently misguided by ignorance, by sudden impulses, and the intrigues of ambitious men; and that some firm barrier against these operations was necessary. They, therefore, instituted your Senate.

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

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.