ambition Quotes

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

France has more need of me than I have need of France.