Reckless Ambition Quotes

If we should perish, the ruthlessness of the foe would be only the secondary cause of the disaster. The primary cause would be that the strength of a giant nation was directed by eyes too blind to see all the hazards of the struggle; and the blindness would be induced not by some accident of nature or history but by hatred and vainglory.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

Whoever prematurely begins a work that is above his strength receives nothing, but only brings harm upon himself.

I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.

The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the point of madness.

I'm convinced that the only way to get ahead in this world is to live and sell dangerously. You've got to live beyond your means. You've got to commit yourself to an act or vision that pulls you further than you want to go and forces you to use your hidden strengths.

As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I must go and leave the happy View I had of being a rich and thriving Man in my new Plantation, only to pursue a rash and immoderate Desire of rising faster than the Nature of the Thing admitted; and thus I cast my self down again into the deepest Gulph of human Misery that ever Man fell into, or perhaps could be consistent with Life and a State of Health in the World.

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!

Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside