ambition Quotes

I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.