Quotes About Ambition

A volte l'impossibile ha una mano felice.

Obviously, I wasn't mistaking cathedrals for custard, but, having been raised among the kites of 'that crazy old Fleury,' I had a soft spot for anything that allows a man to give the best of himself.

Like all Americans, he had no talent for bowing to the inevitable. The word 'impossible' is not in his vocabulary.

You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.

To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious.

I'm not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few countable turns of the sun... let each of us be an Artemis, Odysseus, or Zeus... Aphrodite to the extent of the will of each one.

Eating and scratching want but a beginning.

Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power. The abiding purpose of every nationalist is to secure more power and prestige, not for himself but for the nation or other unit in which he has chosen to sink his individuality.

If you aspire to executive-level work and succeed at attaining it, you will inevitably suffer.

Maintain a clear line of sight to the difference you are hoping to make, and hold fast to that dream as you face the costs of the rise to power.

The most successful person is the one who is most inspired. That is true in food and in life.

People who walk slow ain't got nowhere to go.

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.

Well, this is the town for it. The suicide capital of the world," said the dark writer. "Some of them come here and go nutty, while others come out here with the sole ambition of giving me tsurris. The rest want to jump off a bridge." "San Francisco's the town for that.

We want what's in this world but we also want what ain't.

It was easier to be the headstrong monk, a boy on a long-shot mission, before he actually won anything. With the prize in hand, he realized his single-minded drive came across as aloof cockiness; his painful martyrdom certainly looked like self-nomination for sainthood. He's not sure he can keep up this exhausting, aw-shucks façade for much longer.

Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.

Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.

Trump, through his actions over many decades, has made it clear he can never have enough money, power, or sex.

Boys will be boys," he said. When the door of the elevator shut, Reagan said to Hresko, "But boys will not be president.

We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.

The thought of being president frightens me. I do not think I want the job.

I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?