Quotes About Ambition

What is it about the January feeling— past everything else, low-glowing hunger that propels me around

The bag I wanted was beyond reason - something to hold my poems, twice as big as the universe and it must be androgynous.

In every endeavour, it is man or woman with unbreakable will who excels

Narrow-shouldered and light framed as i remembered, but forcing his way through the crowds with his arms bowed as if he thought of himself as a heavyweight.

The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.

The more I see of the world the more I realize how much we are haunted by our childhood dreams.

While most people are playing it safe and doing everything they can to avoid pain, successful people know that they must face their fears and do what needs to be done regardless of how they feel. They don't necessarily like the hard work, but they're willing to do it because they like the results.

Envy can wake us up to one of two truths: We want something and better do something about it while we still can, or we want something and just cannot have it. […] If your envy is strong and you decide you want to do something, you probably can.

It was about getting what he wanted, and if he had to do business with an evil person like Mugabe, then so be it, as long as he got his part off the deal.

At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but just as soon as she gets one, she wants everything else in the world.

Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

No one gets very far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.

The man who is anybody and who does anything is certainly going to be criticized, vilified and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness.

The man who is anybody and who does anything is certainly going to be criticized, vilified and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it...

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there's so little competition.

Work to become, not to acquire.

I may even swagger a little, and, as I read in a book somewhere, 'push myself forward like a train.

The unattainable was most desireable. The already attained was dull.

Potemkin suffered bitterly from having nothing left to want. For when dreams turn into reality, there is an empty spot where the dreams used to be, and Potemkin had no dreams left.

I wanted to be an actress. I think it had a lot to do with being a kid and watching how every time my dad would stand up to talk people would applaud... that was pretty cool.