Benjamin Disraeli Quotes on Ambition
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Yes, I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole.
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Beware of endeavouring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed: these are fearful odds.
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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.
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Life is too short to be small.
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When I want to read a novel, I write one.
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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.
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What strikes me most singular in you is, that you are fonder of Power than of Fame.