Quotes About Ambition

Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!

In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.

A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.

Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?

Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.

Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.

In King's Landing, there are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces… Every man's a piece to start with, and every maid as well. Even some who think they are players." Petyr Baelish

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously - and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply.

Every man is the maker of his own fortune

I'm so glad to be grouped with the men you've seen in rotten shape. My hope is that someday I will reach the pinnacle of that appalling list.

Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.

They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions.

There was no limit to what one man might do, if he gave all, and held back nothing.

Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.

Activity makes more men's fortunes than cautiousness.

Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.

Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.

The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.

Men are my life, diamonds are my career.

Do something for yourself, and then you will be recognized by the entire world as a man who has done for himself what others have done for themselves.

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

You can become anything you want to be ... It's a matter of authority. Whatever a man's confidence, that's his capacity.

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.