Seneca the Younger Quotes

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.

[In America] No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and what is not yet done is only what he has not yet attempted to do.

Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.

What's difficult with doing 'The Producers' is your appetite is enormous. You want money; you want boards; you have huge desires. You've got to want more than anything for two and a half hours. Everything is heightened.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

I want to keep pushing the limits to see what's possible. That's the nice thing about ski racing - no one is stopping you from going faster.

Ambition is the immoderate desire of power.

Ambition is one of the more ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable …

Extremism in the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice.

For such is the disease of wealth, which knows no limit to its desire of more...

There are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.

Greed is good.

When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.

The vainglory of wishing to understand is dangerous, immoral and, above all, old-fashioned. The modern way – perhaps the final way - is to say: Go forward, without knowing why, as quickly as possible.

The ambition and focus that propel you to success can also be your downfall.

Once I started getting more successful, I just stopped caring completely - 'I'll just do exactly what I want. It doesn't matter.'

Breaking records has never been my goal. I think it's important that we're continually pushing our limits and showing that we can extend beyond what we have done before.

There aren't a lot of things that are extraordinary about Putin, but his greed is truly extraordinary.

Nobody is going to put a limit on what I'm doing.

You were created to excel. There’s no limit to how high you can go in life. Keep stretching to the next level.

Just when you think you've achieved something, you realize you've achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same - toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.

Ambition is the mind's immodesty.

Goals are like stepping-stones to the stars. They should never be used to put a ceiling or a limit on achievement