To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- Philip Sidney, (Nov 30 1554-1586), English courtier, statesman; He was an Elizabethan courtier, statesman, soldier, poet, and patron of scholars and poets, considered the ideal gentleman of his day.