Tony Benn Quotes

Yes! I have climbed to the top of that greasy pole.

I never had a dream of becoming anything, someone really high or a politician.

I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.

Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

I'm in the major league now.

There is always room at the top.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

[Political] Victory is all that matters.

Politicians respect a lot of things, but nothing so much as success.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all other virtues.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

When I was coming up through the ranks, I won a lot - and probably won too much.

I'm not someone to sit on her laurels.

Like Hillary Clinton, I too have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike her, I have actually accomplished something.

Reign, and keep life in this our deep desireOur only greatness is that we aspire.

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end?

Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.

Now you may do it badly, you may do it well, some people like you, some people hate you, all the rest of it - but you have got a real motivating life purpose. [on being Prime Minister

People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.

There is only one thing Donald Trump is interested in, and that's Donald Trump.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.