Quotes About Ambition

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

To have infinite oceanic horizons! This is what a man needs to reach the unreachable.

He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.

A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.

Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves. The Difference lies, as far as I can see, Not in the thing it self, but the Degree.

Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.

When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties. That man will become Grand Vizier or Pope.

Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

Take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead, start where you stand.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

That's why I got a new dumb thing moving through the streets Got a new condo moving to the beach Heard Nicki just bought a brand new crib Got damn man she's beauty and the beast

Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish.

Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.

Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.

I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like Bourne.

I can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world.

The world is full of power and energy and a person can go far by just skimming off a tiny bit of it.