Quotation about AMBITION

AMBITION

Eager or inordinate desire, as for power, wealth, or distinction.
 A strong desire to achieve something considered good or great.

Every eel hopes to become a whale. - German Proverb.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and makes a patriot as it makes a knave.
- Alexander Pope(1688-1744)Essay of Man.

It is a laudable ambitions, that aims at being better than his neighbors.
- Ben Franklin(1706-1790) Poor Richard's Almanack

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on miseries or credulities of mankind. - Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)Personal Record

A man without ambition is like a woman without beauty.
 - Frank Harris (1856-1931) Montes De Matador.

Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue. - Quintilian(40-c. 100)

The slave has but one master; the man of ambition has as many as there are people useful to his fortune. - Jean De La Bruyere (1645-1696) Caracteres.

Ambition and Suspicion always together. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799)

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of dream. - Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet, II, ii,268

Resource: page 1848, Quotations,(THE NEW INTERNATIONAL WEBSTER'S COMPREHENSIVE DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE)

ABILITY FAMOUS LINES, SAYING, EPIGRAMS, QUOTATIONS

ABILITY

The state of being able; physical, mental,legal, or financial power to do.

Skill to do comes of doing. -Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882)Society and Solitude

It is great ability to be able to cenceal one's ability. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld(1613-1680)Maxims

Better be proficient in one art than a smattere in a hundred. - Japanese Proverb

They are able because they think they are able. - Vergil(70-19 B.C.) Aeneid

A man who qualify himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.- Thomas Jefferson(1743-1826)

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study. - Francis Bacon(1561-1620) Essay: of Studies

I add this also, that Natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. - Cicero (106-43 B.C.) Oratio Pro Licinio Archia

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or do that, so long he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long is it impossible to him that he should do it. - Benedict Spinoza(1632-1677) Ethics

Resource: page 1846, Qoutations, (THE INTERNATIONAL WEBSTER'S COMPREHENSIVE DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE)

Quotation about POLITICS

POLITICS

This is a compilation of famous lines, sayings, epigrams and quotations of all ages. Along with each are the author's names, birth and death dates, and in most cases, the source from which the quotation was obtained... And this quotations about politics are from page 1888 of the "THE NEW INTERNATIONAL WEBSTER'S COMPREHENSIVE DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE".

  POLITICS. THE CONDUCT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS FOR PRIVATE ADVANTAGE. - Ambrose Bierce(1842-1914)Devil's Dictionary.

DAMN YOUR PRINCIPLES. STICK TO YOUR PARTY.- Benjamin Disraeli(1804-1881)

EVERY TIME I BESTOW A VACANT OFFICE I MAKE A HUNDRED DISCONTENTED OFFICE AND ONE INGRATE. - Louis XIV of France(1638-1715) 

THE VARIOUS ADMIRABLE MOVEMENTS IN WHICH I HAVE BEEN ENGAGED HAVE ALWAYS DEVELOPED AMONG THEIR MEMBERS A LARGE LUNATIC FRINGE. -Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) 

POLITICS MAKE STRANGE BEDFELLOWS.-John S. Basset(1867-1928)Life of Jackson.

I SHALL NOT HELP CRUCIFY MANKIND UPON A CROSS OF GOLD. I SHALL NOT AID IN PRESSING DOWN UPON THE BLEEDING BROW OF LABOR THIS CROWN OF THORNS. - William Jennings Bryan(1860-1925) Speech.

  WE ARE REPUBLICANS, AND WE DON'T PROPOSE TO LEAVE OUR PARTY AND IDENTIFY OURSELVES WITH THE PARTY OF THOSE ANTECEDENTS HAVE BEEN RUM, ROMANISM AND REBELLION. - REV. S. D. BURCHARD (1812-1891) Speech,1884

WHEN I WAS CALLED UPON TO BE A PRIME MINISTER, NOW NEARLY TWO YEARS AGO, THERE WERE NOT MANY APPLICANTS FOR THE JOB. SINCE THEN PERHAPS THE MARKET HAS IMPROVED. - Winston Churchill(1874-1965) Speech, Jan. 1942