He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

—Niccolo Machiavelli

God creates men, but they choose each other.

—Niccolo Machiavelli

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

—Niccolo Machiavelli

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

—Mark Twain

Dreams, goals, ambitions—these are the stuff man uses for fuel.

—L. Ron Hubbard

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

—Joseph Conrad

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

—Jonathan Swift

Ambition—it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

—J. M. Barrie