Quotes About Ambition

They contemn one another, and yet they seek to please one another: and whilest they seek to surpass one another in worldly pomp and greatness, they most debase and prostitute themselves in their better part one to another.

They despise one another, yet they flatter one another;they sant to get above another and get they bow down to one another.

Thou must also take heed of another kind of wandering, for they are idle in their actions, who toil and labour in this life, and have no certain scope to which to direct all their motions, and desires.

Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.

No time for reading. For controlling your arrogance, yes. For overcoming pain and pleasure, yes. For outgrowing ambition, yes. For not feeling anger at stupid and unpleasant people—even for caring about them—for that, yes.

XLVI. The ambitious supposeth another man's act, praise and applause, to be his own happiness; the voluptuous his own sense and feeling; but he that is wise, his own action.

51. Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.

At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: "I have to go to work—as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I'm going to do what I was born for—the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm? —But it's nicer here. . . . So you were born to feel "nice"? Instead of doing things and experiencing them?

Foolish are those who…have no aim to which they can direct every impulse and, indeed, every thought.

El arrepentimiento es cierto reproche de si mismo, por haber omitido hacer algo provechoso, dado que el bien es necesariamente una cosa útil y acreedora a que el hombre honesto la ambicione. Por otro lado jamás un hombre recto se arrepentirá de haber desdeñado algún placer, ya que el placer ni es cosa útil ni es bien alguno.

A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.

second, that everyone, regardless of who they are, will want to be promoted out of the job as soon as possible.

During Gallup's interviews with great managers, we found a consistent willingness to hire employees who, the managers knew, might soon earn significantly more than they did.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

When power is scarce, a little of it is tempting.

expectation isn't the same as desire

Eating Fire Eating fire is your ambition: to swallow the flame down take it into your mouth and shoot it forth, a shout or an incandescent tongue, a word exploding from you in gold, crimson, unrolling in a brilliant scroll To be lit up from within vein by vein To be the sun

You take the first step, and to save yourself from the consequences, you take the next one. In times like ours, there are only two directions: up or plummet.

The Adams and the Eves used to say, We are what we eat, but I prefer to say, we are what we wish. Because if you can't wish, why bother?

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.

It is remarkable, I have since thought, how once a man has a few coins, no matter how he came by them, he thinks right away that he is entitled to them, and to whatever they can buy, and fancies himself cock of the walk.