Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

… ambition is not a vice but in a vicious mind: in a virtuous mind it is a virtue, and will be found to take its color from the character in which it is mixed. Ambition is a desire of superiority; and a man may become superior, either by making others less or himself greater.

You’re always reaching for the next thing. Every success leads to another one because you’re always testing yourself.

I always look for... hopefully look for a challenge. And you're always looking for the next summit to hit. Even if it's a personal one. It needn't be some great sense of monumental... It just has to be important to you and big enough and special enough and individual enough that you get up for it. And that can be anything.

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

I have a lot of ambition.

All true ambition and aspiration are without comparisons.

Ambition is the Subtlest Beast of the Intellectual and Moral Field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.

I definitely have a lot of ambition.

I believe in goals. It's never a bad thing to have a dream. If something is really what you want to do, just do it. Whatever your goal.

A goal is different from a wish. You may wish to be rich, but there's no responsibility for it. With a goal, it's on you to achieve it.

The philosophy I shared... was one of ambition - ambition to succeed, ambition to grow, ambition to move forward - backed up by hard work.

Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad.

I think everyone needs a goal. And what kind of goal will be important. And for that we have to study and we have to be intelligent.

Here's what you must do. It's pretty simple, really, but I didn't say easy. It's what sets those who succeed apart from those who don't: You must have a sincere and burning desire to achieve what you dream, dedicate yourself to making progress, and take control of your circumstances to change your body.

Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.

Indeed, everybody wants to be a wow, But not everybody knows exactly how.

A dream is what you would like your life to become. A goal is what you are truly willing to do to achieve what you really want.

I am very ambitious. I want to enjoy this and then really go for it.

Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be

We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition needs you to use others as a means.

It's never too late, for with a purpose, a worthy goal and a motivation to reach those upper layers on the pyramid, a person can travel further in a few years than he might otherwise travel in a lifetime.

I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer's voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing.

Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother

Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.