Quotes About Ambition

This was when I was a teenager and thought I could rewrite any script. Now I'm grown and know that very few of us get to become the people we thought we'd be when we were kids.

This was when I thought I could rewrite any script. Now I'm grown and know that very few of us get to become the people we thought we'd be when we were kids.

Lauren Myracle

power over the expedition. It would take Fonseca months, but eventually he would have his revenge on Magellan

Laurence Bergreen

Prince Henry offered a bold reply, "You cannot find a peril so great that the hope of reward will not be greater.

Yet his salary was considerably more than Magellan's, the highest of any in the fleet:

Sailing into these shallow, sediment-rich waters, Magellan thought he might have been entering the waterway leading

enabled Cartagena to step in at any moment and prevent Magellan from enriching himself

Laurence Bergreen

but at the same time he turned a blind eye to the scandals and mutinies surrounding Magellan

time he joined the ranks of explorers who became estranged from this vain ruler.

made him pilot major; he then received an ambitious new commission to claim the Spice Islands for Spain.

Portugal retained its ambition to wrest control of the spice trade from the Arabs, and to reach the Spice Islands

Once the horror of the inquisitional catharsis subsided, Mesquita (with Magellan's blessing)

and Cristóvão Rebêlo, his illegitimate son.

Juan de Aranda, an ambitious merchant, took the Portuguese navigator aside

Dee contemplated extending the English sphere of influence across the globe.

Laurence Bergreen

Of low extraction, and a person of weak character, his advancement must always be regarded with wonder.

what would actually occur once he set forth from Seville.

that King Manuel had refused to back the navigator, humiliating him over and over again.

approximation to Paradise that Magellan was likely to encounter during his entire voyage around the world.

The humiliating rejection proved to be the making of Ferdinand Magellan.