Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes About Ambition

Quotes about: Ambition

• Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Mistake, Ambition, Greatness

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, chapter III: Of Mixed Princedoms, 1513.

• He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Fall, Ambition, Loss

• Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Mistake, Ambition, Sloth

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolo Machiavelli, chapter III: Of Mixed Princedoms, 1513.

• Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Ambition, Men, Politics

• And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition of a few, whom he can curb with ease in many ways.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Ambition

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.80, Xist Publishing

• Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Nature, Teaching, Ambition

• It is a true observation of ancient writers, that as men are apt to be cast down by adversity, so they, are easily satiated with prosperity, and that joy and grief produce the same effects. For whenever men are not obliged by necessity to fight they fight from ambition, which is so powerful a passion in the human breast that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Powerful, Grief, Ambition

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