Quotes About Ambition

I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.

The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.

I'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power.

The most intimidating world leader was Lyndon Johnson, who became U.S. President when John Kennedy was assassinated. He exulted in this power and liked to inspire fear.

It is within the power of every man to become great.

But isn't it likely that everyone in this world...has killed someone or other on their way to the top?...All I wanted was a chance to be a man--and for that, one murder is enough.

Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.

Volumes in the series on Lyndon Johnson, including Master of the Senate and The Path Power, describe how Johnson created resources out of nothing and built a substantial power base.

The difference between men and women is that women seek power in order to address issues, while men address issues in order to seek power.

If I feel I can play a part I do everything in my power to try to play it.

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Don't give your power away to anybody. If you find something to do that you truly love, you'll be successful.

To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.

Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.

I don't really get into the power sufficiently, and that's also a problem for me.

Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour; Ambition is not tir'd with toll nor cloy'd with power.

Goals may give focus, but dreams give power.

I always knew I had this voice, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I realized I had the power to do something with it.

Always remember, with a strong enough will, even the weak can wield great power.

Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.

Keep dreaming, wishing and planning. There's immeasurable power in it.