Ambition Quotes

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."--From My Brother Martin, by Christin...

Yes, but the artist?" said Nigel almost fiercely. "He's different, you know he is. He's driven by so...

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupul...

For what is more lovable than failure?

I believe we are powerful, but we don't use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough...

There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart ...

There comes a moment when the image of our life parts company with the life itself, stands free, and...

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that un...

By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across th...

Tell the world what you intend to do but first show it.

It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose ex...

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

You could never understand why I grind like I doMakiyah & Jalani why I grind like I do

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slave...

Poverty may be a privilege and even a way of life for the monk in the desert,for he has only himself...

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival firs...

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is w...

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Napoleon, the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are crimina...

This is the age of the specialist, and years ago Rollo had settled on his career. Even as a boy, har...

My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance ...

The map? I will first make it.

The map? I will first make it.

The map? I will first make it.

The map? I will first make it.

I have learned to have very modest goals for society and myself things like clean air green grass ...

People need not fear the unknown if they have a capable of achieving what they need and what

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to ...

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you the society of your contemporaries the co...

Hitch your wagon to a star.

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

Those who seize the day become seriously rich.

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

I have only one ambition, which is to be famous.

Ah but a man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for?

By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a da...

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned ...

I don't want to rot like mangoes at the end of the season, or burnout like the sun at the and of the...

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been ...

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and la...

After much effort to live up to a glorious standard there came fatigue, wan hope, and boredom. I exp...

With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. Tha...

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life....

...you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. The real value is in stirring...

Ambition had never troubled me, so I decided to begin by watching life at my leisure for a few years...

There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to b...

The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we liv...

Everyone— black as well as white— thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land.

Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do.

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the cal...

The future is what matters — because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present — like th...

Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like bein...

Being an absolute ruler today was not as simple as people thought. At least, it was not simple if yo...

Miss Tick sniffed. 'You could say this advice is priceless,' she said. 'Are you listening?''Yes,' sa...

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great ...

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

Winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.

Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be It exacts a full look at the Worst.

I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

I don't care much whether I ever get to know anything - but I want to work out something in figures ...

The best is the enemy of good.

Ambition is a path, not a destination, and it is essentially the same path for everybody. No matter ...

The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people ...

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, an...

Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanesce...

a man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much ou...

a man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much ou...

a man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much ou...

a man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much ou...

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a tim...

I’d be glad to go out on a limb with thoseWho want nothing beyond what the wind bestows,Were I not b...

You don’t come to live here [New York City] unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own ...

You don’t come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn’t a ...

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether pec...

His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.

I believe at least in one of the chief tenets of the Christian faith--contentment with a lowly place...

Suicide is a confession of failure. And like divorce, it is shrouded in excuses and rationalizations...

It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless ...

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, h...

Every ceiling when reached becomes a floor upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescri...

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a sk...

I have an ambition to live 300 years. I will not live 300 years. Maybe I will live one year more. Bu...

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or u...

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or u...

...it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labou...

. . . I should wish you to think more deeply, to look further, and aim higher than you do.

Some of the best of us are quite unambitious.

Trapnel wanted, among other things, to be a writer, a dandy, a lover, a comrade, an eccentric, a sag...

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent caus...