Overmastering Quotes
- Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. — Ambrose Bierce
- The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose. — Orison Swett Marden
- We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will… — H. H. Asquith
- The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The… — Orison Swett Marden
- No matter what face he wears, Satan has one overmastering ambition, one burning desire-to dethrone the Almighty and to place himself upon the highest throne… — Adrian Rogers
- Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom. — Sonya Levien
- We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us. — Dorothy L. Sayers