Quotes About Ambition

But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.

Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man. He's not cruel. He just does what he has to do. And in his own mind, he's absolutely right.

It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before.

Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.

Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.

Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it.

What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.

Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.

A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.

When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do - dog eat dog - that's what our culture is.

On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones.

All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them.

It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world. - Dr. Grief

I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men. I didn't walk into the kitchen and go, 'Ooh, I'm a girl!' I didn't get into my chosen profession. I wanted to be good at something.

I would say probably my most alpha quality is my competitive nature. I'm very competitive, and it tends to bring out very much the man in me.

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.

To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men.

I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.

I said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.

If I'd been offered 'Spider-Man,' I probably would have done it. I don't think it's bad to go and do those things.

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.