Quotes About Ambition

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

By becoming emperor, I would once more put myself above my state.

Eisenhower on Patton: "Fundamentally, he is so avid for recognition as a great commander that he won't with ruthlessly suppress any habit that will jeopardize it.

It's always hard to follow in the footsteps of a legend, especially when you don't even want to.

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

But Portia's application would have landed in the great moving tide of similar applications: great kids, smart kids, hardworking kids who would certainly do great at whatever college they ended up going to, which almost certainly wasn't going to be Princeton.

Beyond us I could see the mountains rising blue and hazy, and I knew I had only to cross them and keep on walking to catch up with all my dreams.

I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.

If I had done what I was programmed to do, I would now be sitting in a car factory looking at the sizes of wheels, or wondering how to get credit to start a new factory in Russia.

Is is said that those who study the ways of ambition learn patience.

J'embrasse mon rival, mais c'est pour l'étouffer.

Tyranny always starts auspiciously.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Excelsior, you fatheads.

Para las mujeres Atenea (como señalaba el exsecretario de estado Henry Kisinger) "el poder es el mejor afrodisíaco".

It never occurs to her that she will not be a writer and only occasionally does it occur to her, depressingly, that she is going to grow into a woman, not a man.

Andy Warhol would like to have been Edie Sedgwick. He would like to have been a charming, well-born débutante from Boston. He would like to have been anybody except Andy Warhol.

You didn't give up wanting things because your life had put them out of reach.

we have little empirical knowledge about the connection between merit and success

Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream.

you just want a thing hard enough and keep on trying, you do get it in the end.

This new book is going to get itself finished— and published! You see if it doesn't.