Plato Quotes

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any such effort as Christianity makes to constitute it the mainspring of all their conduct.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

… 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.

I've worked all my life not to be a simpleton.

I want to understand everything so I can put myself in a position to be successful.

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.

Produce great men, the rest follows.

Nothing is steadfast but the will, nothing endures but one’s achievements.

All true ambition and aspiration are without comparisons.

The world is divided into those who want to become someone and those who want to accomplish something.

Mad ambition trumpeteth to all

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work.

For men, to cultivate virtue is knowledge; for women, to renounce knowledge is virtue.

Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.