Quotes About Ambition

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

Die Wurzel des Übels lag in der verworrenen und ruhelosen Natur des Menschen mit ihren edlen wie mit ihren bösen Zügen: dem Streben nach Freiheit, Ruhm oder Herrschaft. Weltherrschaft, Wohlstand und persönlicher Ehrgeiz hatten die Republik lange zuvor zugrunde gerichtet.

If I was as rich as a Rockerfeller I'd be Richer than Rockefeller, because I'd do a bit of window cleaning on the side.

Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise risking more than others think is safe dreaming more than others think is practical and expecting more than others think is possible.

Greed knows no shame

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

You must accept that you might fail then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

You must accept that you might fail then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, and you don't branch out, you don't try-you don't take the risk.

The drive to be successful and the fear of failure are, like the head and tail of a coin, inseparably linked.

They goaded me on to unusual efforts and caused me, and those around me, considerable suffering. Of course, the surprising thing was that my increasing success did little to lessen the tension.

Leaders who become their vision often seem uncommonly brave to the rest of us.

I wasn't good enough. I had a little talent but not enough. There is nothing more discouraging than having just a little talent.

Millie was talking about the classes she would take next semester. Patrice was listening to the titles of the classes. "What do I have to do to become a lawyer?" asked Patrice. Millie told her.

the name by which she would—maybe embarrassing to say but she thought it anyway—the name by which she would rise in the world.

Albertine was one of those who took on too much in order to remain perpetually dissatisfied with herself.

A woman who spends her time worrying about pregnancy is a virtual cripple, she'll never go very far.

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But I was going to say that while I was dawdling about abroad, I saw a good many talented young fellows making all sorts of sacrifices, and enduring real hardships, that they might realize their dreams. Splendid fellows, some of them, working like heroes, poor and friendless, but so full of courage, patience and ambition, that I was ashamed of myself, and longed to give them a right good lift.

The smart, ambitious woman he'd fallen in love with had slipped under the weight of his dark moods. She didn't like who she was becoming—quick to please him just to stop his anger, less likely to listen to herself than to him.

You have to have your head in the clouds to shoot for the stars

A man who works cannot dream. And it is only through dreams that we achieve wisdom.

It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.

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