Quotes About Ambition

Discovering what your goals are can be the toughest part of achieving them.

Perhaps he has confused making money with freedom.

The point of this hard work isn't to prove anything to anyone, only to transcend your own limitations.

rapidamente cheguei à resolução de me lançar no vasto mundo, dirigindo-me a Londres para ir em busca de minha fortuna, uma frase que, parece, tem arruinado mais aventureiros de ambos os sexos saídos do campo do que levado a sua realização.

This morning I had not so much as carfare. Now I am here, on velvet. You are itching to learn of this haven; you would like to organize trips here, spoil it, send your relations-in-law, perhaps even come yourself. After all, this journal will hardly fall into your hands till I am dead. I'll tell you. I am at Bracey's Giant Emporium, as happy as a mouse in the middle of an immense cheese, and the world shall know me no more.

Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.

Warraner would rather have been the king of nothing than the prince of something.

Funny, that. For so long Wormwood had desired the throne and then, when he'd had it, it hadn't been worth desiring after all.

were indeed the case that behind every great fortune lay a great crime—and this was as true of the New World as of the Old, if

They wanted eternal life; he gave them perpetual motion. It comes to the same thing, for such a race.

Yet for all he knew the terrible griefs, great sufferings, accidents and windfalls it told of were all true to life—what did he know about life, about people? Maybe most people were as wilful, as overmastered by ambition, blood, lust, money, passion as the TV showed them.

If you're going to go somewhere, you have to believe you can get there. Somehow, some way.

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

Los Angeles] the world's biggest third-class city...

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

Hunger not to have, but to be

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust.