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Quotes About Ambition

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.
~ Henry A. Wallace
Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
~ Harold MacMillan
Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.
~ Aristotle
When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
~ Robert Greene
We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to imitate that absolutely unfeeling, driving ambition that we have seen coming at us across the desk.
~ Colleen Dewhurst
Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.
~ Laozi
If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.
~ Euripides
Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.
~ John D. Rockefeller
What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Power seeking to manifest causes desire within you.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Heirs Holdings has the ambition to generate at least a quarter of Nigeria's power consumption needs in the next five years
~ Tony Elumelu
It's not about money. The money will flow. It's about power and influence.
~ Michael Ovitz
Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
~ Tacitus
All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power.
~ Park Geun-hye
Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.
~ Rollo May
Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
'Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.
~ Roseanne Barr
Movies have heart. Have mind. Have power. Have ambition.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
Although the power is lacking, the will is commendable.
~ Ovid
Without any doubt, I am striving for power.
~ Alexei Navalny
Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely.
~ Bertrand Russell
Power dressing is combat gear for the trip to the top.
~ Valerie Steele
Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.
~ Juvenal