Quotes About Ambition

If it can be done, then we'll do it. If it can't be done by us, then no one can do it." Self-Assess

Only two months after the battle he wrote a sad description of his own fate: "I spend my time building castles in the air, but in the end all of them, and I, blow away in the end." It is an epitaph that might serve all the empire builders of the violent century.

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.

For men who prided themselves on being disciples of reason, their drive to live on the edge seemd inexplicable, unless they believed that becoming the richest would certify them as also being the smartest.

When you need money, Wall Street is a heartless place.

The future is to be conquered, the present ridiculed, and the past outdone." Voltaire Almighty

You don't just stumble into the future. You create your own future.

Be determined and never give up. you are much, much better than you think you are. All you need is a burning desire. Follow your dream and you'll go far.

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom.

Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

In America, if you succeed, you get sued. If nobody is suing you in America, you haven't made it there.

All difficulties in this life, every moment of difficulty, come from the distance between what is and what we want to be.

When you climb a mountain, you need to be looking forward not backward.

Someday" ("someday I'll do this, someday I'll do that") is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

Quitting—whether a job or a habit—means taking a turn so as to be sure you're still moving in the direction of your dreams.

He had a good dream, to come out number one." But the other son accurately sees the contradiction which such an upheaval of values leads to, "He never knew who he was."*

Peux ce que veux. Allons-y.

I think that one of the benefits of optimism and idealism is that they lead you into things you would never have tried if you'd let yourself imagine how hard it was going to turn out to be.

quand je serai grand j'écrirai moi aussi les misérables parce que c'est ce qu'on écrit toujours quand on a quelque chose à dire.

Ta?iau tai bergždžias darbas, ir kai vadiniesi Mikelandželu, Goja, Mocartu, Tolstojumi, Dostojevskiu ar Malro, numiršti negal?damas atsikratyti jausmo, jog kurpei bakal?jos gaminius.

You've always gone all the way, haven't you? — Well, all the way doesn't turn out to be so very far, after all...