Seneca the Younger Quotes

Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature's self.

Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.

Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.

I would never rest until I held vengeance and the throne within my hand, and good night sweet prince to anybody who stood between me and these things.

I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.

Vanity is easily duped. Ambition, not.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight

You start living for the obsession alone ... You want to arrive somewhere regardless of whether you're enjoying the road or not.

I have an ambition to live 300 years. I will not live 300 years. Maybe I will live one year more. But I have the ambition. Why you will not have ambition? Why? Have the greatest ambition possible. You want to be immortal? Fight to be immortal. Do it. You want to make the most fantastic art or movie? Try. If you fail, is not important. We need to try.

I don't know many ambition- ridden people who really enjoy themselves. Even success doesn't seem to still the insatiable, gnawing hunger of their ambition. Ambition is a good gift, but it cannot be all.

Maybe I'm competitive. I just feel like I have this gift that I've been given. It's like, "Someone unwrap it! Here it is!" That drive can't be held down. I have a lot of ambition.

Ambition beats genius 99% of the time

Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.

To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting.

Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.

The height of human desire is what wins, whether it’s on Normandy Beach or in Ohio Stadium.

If you pour your heart into your work, or into any worthy enterprise, you can achieve dreams others may think impossible.

Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby.

If you ran a delicatessen store, you would want to be the best delicatessen store, wouldn't you? Well, that's how I feel about the Yankees.

It was a dream to arrive at Liverpool but I never wanted to just settle for what I had achieved. I wanted more.

The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.

Stick to the script like paper clips and coffee stains, Never let a seed of doubt deter you from your lofty aims, The will is much stronger than the flesh, And it only gets stronger when you going through duress, Imagination is the factory that makes legends... Close Your Eyes and dream B.I.G. like Faith Evans.

Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.

If you never feel like giving up, then your dreams are too small