Profit?” Leo Tolstoy tells of a landhungry man who went to a distant country where the headman of a tribe offered to giv…

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Nikolai Berdysev, a Russian philosopher, said: “In the very act of affirming himself man has lost himself. He has conque…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man by one which is lower…

— H. W. Beecher

Ambition is the spur that makes man struggle with destiny. It is heaven's own incentive to make purpose great and achiev…

— Donald G. Mitchell

Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.

— C. Archie Danielson

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of th…

— Walter Savage Landor