Quotes About Ambition

and he captured and eventually executed the official incoming governor, Mark Antony's brother Gaius.

Mark Antony took the same line.

his signet ring bearing the head of Alexander the Great.

Let your motto be, I lead. Strive to be best.

Caesar intended to return to Rome, a conquering hero, and stand for consul for 48 B.C.

What he wants is hard to say, but when he wants it, he wants it badly.

From Antony's point of view, the arrival of Caesar's heir was an annoying distraction.

who decided to launch a military challenge against Octavian.

The main trouble with the Roman constitution was that it contained too many checks and balances, whether to restrain ambitious power-seekers or to protect ordinary citizens from the executive. It is somewhat surprising that anything was ever decided.

set on having their day in court and pressed for Caesar's early recall.

This development has been presented as leaving Livia and her sons, Tiberius and Drusus, out in the cold.

THE GREAT-UNCLE 48–47 B.C.

She would have been no help to an ambitious young man's career

The First Triumvirate proved that men with the support of the people and soldiers of Rome, lots of money, and a fair amount of nerve could disregard the ruling class and, in effect, hijack the Republic.

Descartes's grandiose ambitions even extended to "a system of medicine founded on infallible demonstrations." He once said that the preservation of health had always been "the principal end of my studies,

I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world. - Dr. Grief

But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school. That's why they become politicians.

You must do what you want.

It was the garden of a man who wanted to rule the world but couldn't, and so had cut the world down to his own size.

If you stand too close to the sun you can't complain when all you become as a silhouette.

But that's how it is when you're a kid, isn't it? You have all these dreams and, unless you're lucky, they never amount to anything.

It's none of my business, but sometimes you can spend so much time chasing something that you lose everything else while you're about it.