Ambition Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee Download Open image “Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces.” — Christian Nestell Bovee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambition Ambitious Kingdoms Provinces Values
In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
The more princes abstain from touching the wealth of their people, the greater will be their resources in the wants of the state. — Pulcheria Copy Share Image
How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
While princes do rule the empire, they have to work within certain boundaries, and they're also always in a contest with each other to… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned. — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards. — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
“I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.” — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I was always attracted most to joining City, and I am pleased to be at such a good club with such a big ambition… — Edin Dzeko Copy Share Image
Work towards your goal and dont watch the post size,its either they hate,or like you.there is no room for both sides. — Isaac Buabeng Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way. — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
