Quotes About Ambition

Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this

Close the Bible and open the Manu Smriti. It has an affirmation of life, a triumphing agreeable sensation in life and that to draw up a lawbook such as Manu means to permit oneself to get the upper hand, to become perfection, to be ambitious of the highest art of living.

Mankind ought constantly to be striving to produce Great Men --this and nothing else is its duty

If you would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

My paradise is in the shadow of my sword.

Yazar olmaya utanan en iyi yazar olacakt?r.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men.

Don't ask, How will I climb the mountain, just climb the mountain.

You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.

When some men fail to accomplish what they desire to do they exclaim angrily, "May the whole world perish!" This repulsive emotion is the pinnacle of envy, whose implication is "If I cannot have something, no one can have anything, no one is to be anything!

Having a talent is not enough; one also requires your permission for it--right, my friends?

You go above and beyond them: but the higher you climb, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. And he who flies is hated most of all.

They all want to get to the throne: this is their madness—as if happiness were sitting on the throne! Often it is mud that sits on the throne—and often the throne also sits on mud.

I love those that know not how to live except as down-goers, for they are the over-goers.

You preachers of equality, the tyrannomania of impotence clamors thus out of you for equality: your most secret ambitions to be tyrants thus shroud themselves in words of virtue. Aggrieved conceit, repressed envy—perhaps the conceit and envy of your fathers—erupt from you as a flame and as the frenzy of revenge.

What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I make for my goal, I follow my course; over the loitering and tardy will I leap. Thus let my on-going be their down-going!

Do I then strive after happiness? I strive after my work!

What? You search? You would multiply yourself by ten, by a hundred? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Stay not where the lowlands are! Climb not into the sky! The world looks best by far when viewed from halfway high.

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties. Other men have the same yearning, even when power means visible disadvantages, the sacrifice of their happiness, and well-being; they are the ambitious. Other men, again, are only like dogs in a manger, and will have power only to prevent its falling into the hands of others on whom they would then be dependent.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

I TEACH YOU THE SUPERMAN. Man is something that is to be surpassed. What have ye done to surpass man? All