“We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.”

All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love…I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.

People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.

Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

Success consists in the climb.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.

True life lies in laughter, love and work.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.

Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.

Climate change poses an existential threat to the planet that is no less dire than that posed by North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine

I find ambition really attractive too – if someone’s good at something they love doing. I want someone who is driven.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

Always surround yourself with people who are smart and ambitious

I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious.

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

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.