Quotes About Ambition

If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore...

It is respectable to have illusions - and safe - and profitable, and dull

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man. We are all born despots, from the most absolute monarch in Asia to the infant who smothers a bird with its hand for the pleasure of seeing that there exists in the world a being weaker than itself.

You never know just what you can do until you try.

when theres a will theres a way

It is difficult to be ambitious without also being envious.

Did a few poor souls die because of the Big Dig? Son, a hundred men died building the Hoover Dam. A thousand men died building the Erie Canal. Four hundred Chinamen died building the transcontinental railroad. How about the Panama Canal? One of the greatest engineering feats in history? Thirty thousand men died building it. Ambitious projects always cost lives, son. That's the truth. Have you ever visited the great pyramids of Giza?

Mom was the prettiest girl in his small-town high school, with looks that rivaled Grace Kelly's, and her early photos confirmed it. Victor Heller won her over by the sheer brute force of his charisma, by his indomitable will, his outsize ambition.

Here Dostoevsky draws what seems to him the moral of the revolutions of 1848, and applies it to the Russian situation... "Every society can accommodate only that degree of progress that it has developed and begun to understand. Why reach further, why reach for the stars in the sky? This can destroy everything because it can frighten everyone.

The career stuff is for business people.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.

When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.

Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

261. And for me, to be a ruler is a worthwhile ambition, even if you're in Hell.

IV-40. Pride and ambition caused me to go against God. But why? He's the one who gave me my glory. He was kind to me. And he didn't ask much in return. IV-46. What was so hard about giving him the praise and thanks that he deserved? IV-48. But all his goodness only made me bad. IV-49. I was in a high position, but it just made me want to be higher. IV-52. I got sick of always saying thank you.

I was coughing and sneezing, my eyes were sore, my knees were shaky, I was as hungry as a bitch wolf, and I had exactly eight cents to my name. I didn't care. my history was longer by eleven thousand brand-new words, and at that moment I bet there wasn't a chairman of the board in all New York as happy as I.

You see how things might be and you aren't afraid to risk something to have it.