Quotes About Ambition

In madness lies change, in change is opportunity and in opportunity are riches.

Politics were so very simple, the Cardinal thought, just so long as a man believed no one, double-crossed everyone, kept a full treasury, and inveigled others into doing the dirty work.

To gain everything, a man must risk everything.

When you are young and powerless you dream of possessing mystical strength, and once you are grown and strong you condemn lesser folk to that same dream

It is a book of truths, that money and power are not the right ambitions of a virtuous man, but that justice, charity, and humility will bring you contentment.

Because when he returns, Richard, he would be the biggest man in town. He wants revenge on his childhood. He wants the respect of the town. Saint Paul tells us that when we were children we spoke as children, we understood and thought as children but when we become men we put away childish things, but I'm not so sure we ever do put them away. I think the childish things linger on, and your brother craves what he wanted as a child, the respect of his home town

my goals are extreme and therefore I moderate and measure my means.

There comes a time in a (wo)man's life when to get where (s)he has to -- if there are no doors or windows -- he walks through a wall.

Since I can't be a professional on account of lack of education I wouldn't mind being wealthy.

Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams. Because it is.

Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams. -John Merrick

L'humanité sera condamnée le jour où les humains n'auront plus envie de se surpasser. Aussi, vous tous qui m'écoutez, posez-vous cette question : « Mais au fait, qu'est-ce qui me donne envie de me lever le matin pour entreprendre des choses ? Qu'est-ce qui me donne envie de faire des efforts ? Qu'est-ce qui me pousse à agir ? »

La vie de l'homme, avec tous ses projets, s'élève comme une petite tour dont la mort est le couronnement.

women who miraculously spend their working day wearing bondage-tight skirts and vertiginous, destabilizing heels which make their feet look bound the erogenous zones of crushed muscles and cramped bones, encased in upmarket strippers' heels and if she has to cripple herself to signal her education, talent, intellect, skills and leadership potential then so be it

her morning mantra in the bathroom mirror I am highly presentable, likeable, clubbable, relatable, promotable and successful

You must want to be more than you once were, and more than you are now. Something unfamiliar is required of each of us. We must sow our seeds in frozen ground to be able to harvest in spring.

Bernhard Hennen

Luchaba siempre, y había luchado siempre, no para mostrar a los demás de lo que era capaz, sino para ocultarles de qué no era capaz. Una vida cuyos avances eran enérgicas retiradas y cuyas victorias eran derrotas encubiertas

What do you want now? Your whole life in one hour?

All human activity is prompted by desire.

Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.

Man needs, for his happiness, not merely the enjoyment of this or that, but hope, and enterprise and change.

Where envy is unavoidable it must be used as a stimulus to one's own efforts, not to the thwarting of the efforts of rivals.

It is not good for men to get all that they wish to get." One may say that Heraclitus values power obtained through self-mastery, and despises the passions that distract men from their central ambitions.