Quotes About Ambition

In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled with goodness, but with the opposite qualities of pride, craft and cruelty.

Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.

To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.

Those carried away by power are soon carried away.

Every power grab is the new base camp for the next power grab.

I like being powerful. I hope it doesn't go to my head. If somebody's going to have it, it might just as soon be me. There's always power, and it's just a matter of in whose hands it falls.

I have both held and beheld unlimited power and of it I know but one thing. It drives men mad.' - Alexander the Great

Get power but don't admit to it. Do it by stealth. There's a whole trend of Rhodes scholars who will be politicians around the world.

There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

There is only one way to go: up. I like to find cheap assets with problems. It gives me power.

IDEAS CAN BE TRANSMUTED INTO CASH THROUGH THE POWER OF DEFINITE PURPOSE, PLUS DEFINITE PLANS.

Alain will do everything in his power to win, he doesn't like getting beaten by anyone and least of all me.

Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

I would love to play the President. Give me the suit, give me the power, give me the oval office. That would be really fun.

The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.

I am master of myself as of the universe, so I am; so I wish to be.

You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

It's the most ambitious power grab I've ever witnessed.

In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle.

Dreams don't "come true". Dreams get "made true". You have the power to get up, execute and make beautiful results happen, day by valuable day.

Energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man.

Sweetie, in our world, fair's got nothing to do with anything. He who has the greatest power wins. It's why we're all willing to kill each other off without flinching. (Solin)

All want power, but few will wait to gain it for themselves.