Quotes About Ambition

Understand: the more you want the prize, the more you must compensate by examining what getting it will take.

Those who seek to achieve things should show no mercy. Kautilya, Indian philosopher third century B.C.

To bring power, fantasy must remain to some degree unrealized, literally unreal.

A person who has something to prove will move mountains for you.

If people with natural gifts also possess a good work ethic and have some luck in life, envy will follow them wherever they go.

Only the weak rest on their laurels and dote on past triumphs; in the game of power there is never time to rest.

Elevate yourself above the battlefield.

So I went down to their office and I said, "Well, I'll write a column for you." So the first year I didn't get paid anything, but I wrote a little column every month

Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

En todas las esferas de la vida, nunca des la impresión de que buscas algo; esto producirá una resistencia que nunca someterás.

They experience it as an inner calling. It tends to dominate their thoughts and dreams. They find their way, by accident or sheer effort, to a career path in which this inclination can flourish.

Your job today tells me nothing of your future--your use of your leisure today tells me just what your tomorrow will be.

Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.

Sometimes it is foolish to articulate an ambition too early--exposing it prematurely to the laughter and skepticism of the world can destroy it before it is even properly born. But sometimes the opposite occurs, and the very act of mentioning a thing makes it suddenly seem possible, even plausible.

What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!

Since when has idiocy been a bar to advancement in politics?

The trouble with Lucious, he said, putting his feet up on the desk after this cousin has gone, is that he thinks politics is a fight for justice. Politics is a profession.

It is in the nature of things that not all politicians can achieve greatness.

The trouble with Lucius," he said, putting his feet up on the desk after his cousin had gone, "is that he thinks politics is a fight for justice. Politics is a profession.

a man of great ambition and boundless stupidity, two qualities which in politics often go together.

One could never be sure with Oliver. Ambition and godliness, self-interest and the higher cause, the base metal entwined with the gold.

Robert Harris

People who succeed in life are rarely reflective. Their gaze is always on the future: that's why they succeed.

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