All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice crime ambition injustice oppression slavery and war proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first they seek to secure themselves against attack and then they attack others.

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.