Quotes About Ambition

All my speculations and hopes are as nothing; and, like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell.

I trod heaven in my thoughts, now exulting in my powers, now burning with the idea of their effects.

when the masters of the science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand:

Like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell.

Despondency rarely visited my heart; a high destiny seemed to bear me on, until I fell, never, never again to rise.

Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavour to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

I had a contempt for the uses of modern natural philosophy. It was very different, when the masters of the science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the scene was changed. The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the annihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded. I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.

One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought; for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Penguin Classics, January 16, 2018) Originally published January 1, 1818.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth

how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become so greater than his nature will allow

Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

Everyone believes he can fashion a witch to his way of thinking so that she will satisfy his ambitions, dreams, and desires...

Masashi Kishimoto

There is only one will and that is the Will of Fire. The will that doesn't let you give up

You said you want to became Hokage. I have become the Kazekage. If you are willing to bear the name Kage, you have to do what you must do.

I took the life of the woman I was supposed to call mother in the process of being born... in order to become the world's strongest shinobi... an incarnation of sand was implanted inside of me...

Ii isn't thet if you become Hokage, everyone will acknowldege you. It's the ones who are acknowledged that can become Hokage.

That is a considerable amount of puppets. But ... [Proceeds to summon one hundred puppets of his own] With this, I took down a whole country

I was raised on ramen and hard work!

In order to escape a road of solitude, one has to work hard, and forge a new path with their own power!

If you want to conquer the world, do it in your own free time. I'm after something bigger, something much bigger. - Sasuke Uchiha

For those who don't believe in themselves, hardwork is worthless

Putin wanted to rule the world, or a part of it, from the shadows.