Ambition Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Men are subject to powerful passions and appetites, and, if unrestrained, are capable of ruthlessly riding roughshod over their neighbors and the community at…

— William Barr

Men have desired to gain knowledge and then power so that they can accomplish their goals of conquest, control, and manipulation.

— Anonymous

There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them…

— Gertrude Stein

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.

— Mary Stewart

“The wish to acquire is no doubt a natural and common sentiment, and when men attempt things within their power, they will always be…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“There is something ineluctably male about coalitional aggression - men bonding with men to engage in aggression against other men,”

— Rose McDermott

Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down by the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people…

— Tom Cotton

For siege works against bold and venturesome men should be constructed on one plan, on another against cautious men, and on still another against…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

— Eric Sevareid