Quotes About Excessive Ambition

#1. Discontented inhabitants who willingly admit a foreign power either through excessive ambition or through fear, as was the case with the Etolians, who admitted the Romans into Greece. So it was with every province that the Romans entered: they were brought in by the inhabitants themselves.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#2. I can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt.

Joe Torre

#3. My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

Berthe Morisot

#4. The world, finally, tries to rob us in lots of ways. I like poems to do a bit of taking back for us.

Terry Blackhawk

#5. Ultimately, you are defined by your kindness, compassion, passion, and choice.

Debasish Mridha

#6. Someone, somewhere, needs to hear what you have to say.
We all share this wondrous planet, called earth.
And inevitably, we all must journey through the darkness.
Many people don't survive, but you can help!

Delano Johnson

#7. In the professional world of leadership ambition and potential are the most excessive commodities.

Noel DeJesus

#8. Going first is courageous. I'm just talking on a spirit level now.

John Densmore

#9. And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the pursuit of truth, after all?

Joseph Conrad

#10. I take a situation, analyse it, break it down, put it in the form I want it to be in, and then I toss it away. Let somebody else go deal with it.

Lisa Marie Presley