7 Benjamin Disraeli Quotes on Ambition

Benjamin Disraeli quotes on ambition

41. Yes, I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole.

85. Beware of endeavouring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed: these are fearful odds.

117. Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

205. Life is too short to be small.

237. When I want to read a novel, I write one.

250. Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

266. What strikes me most singular in you is, that you are fonder of Power than of Fame.