Joseph Addison Quotes

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Presidential aspirants reach for the highest office to satisfy some yearning for greatness or even immortality.

… ambition is not a vice but in a vicious mind: in a virtuous mind it is a virtue, and will be found to take its color from the character in which it is mixed. Ambition is a desire of superiority; and a man may become superior, either by making others less or himself greater.

Great men grow.

Greatness is contagious.

Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.

It is the success which makes great men.

Choose great people and shine in their shadows

We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors.

I want to be a major force.

I just want to be great. I want to stand out, be a great leader for this defense, and I'm just trying to leave it all out on the field.

There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats. Go back, discover the greats, and take it from there.

Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

Great hopes make great men.

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.

Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.

I just want to be an inspiration. I'm a rock star, I'm Future Hendrix.

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.