Quotes About Ambition

everything that lifts people above their fellows arouses both emulation and jealousy.

But the standouts in the generations immediately preceding Cleopatra's were—for vision, ambition, intellect—universally female.

Indeed Cleopatra murdered her siblings, but Herod murdered his children.

A well-connected son of the establishment, he strained to find his place, loitering his way toward his future.

He muscled words into deeds

Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history: that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier, were dangerous.

Apollodorus came, Caesar saw, Cleopatra conquered.

Alone among America's founders, his is a riches-to-rags story.

He read theology and abandoned the ministry, read law and abandoned the bar, entered business and lost a thousand pounds.

There are cities in which to spend a fortune and cities in which to make one; only in the rare great city can one accomplish both.

One can accomplish something only so long as one cannot accomplish everything.

El hombre que no cuenta con ningún objetivo en la vida, tiene que creárselo».

Es kann keinen Flug geben ohne vorangegangene Träume vom Fliegen.

The real Machiavellian, like the infant, believes there is nothing bigger or more important than him or herself. To succeed, you will need to achieve that view, to return to the liberating egocentrism of the selfish, amoral child who wants what he wants and permits nothing to get in its way.

He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close he could hardly fail to grasp it." The quotation is from The Great Gatsby

Because business, in many ways, is like politics or beauty pageants. The talented do, at times, rise to the top. But those with guts, gumption, unbounded energy, hot desire, and the ability to push people around do very well, too, even the ugly ones.

Barry was born clever enough at gaining a fortune, but incapable of keeping one. For the qualities and energies which lead a man to achieve the first are often the very cause of his ruin in the latter case.

Dream. You have permission to dream. And besides, if you don't have a dream, how can you have a dream come true?

Ci vuole un gran fisico per correre dietro ai sogni

Sessant'anni prima aveva più speranze, ma dormiva in un letto gelato. Cosa scegliere tra i sogni e il termosifone?

A lumbering soul but trying to fly...

The thing that makes you say, I want to do something - that is the beginning of talent.

You should want to act only because you want to be led to something bigger in life.

You'll never really be great unless you aim high.