Comprehensive Quote by Edwin Percy Whipple

Pretension is nothing; power is everything.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and…

— Andrew Carnegie

...it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his…

— Michel Foucault

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

— Anonymous

All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe…

— Swami Vivekananda

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

— Oscar Wilde

All power is inherent in the people.

— Thomas Jefferson

Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.

— Warren G. Harding

What is ambition but desire of greatness? And what is greatness but extent of power?

— Thomas Higgons

If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is choosing for itself when…

— John Lewis Gaddis

Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood; the highest, envy.

— William Lilly

“It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.”

— Idries Shah