Quotes About Ambition

Dreams are a reflection of your desires

Live the life you want.

One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambitious, and he who is deficient in this respect unambitious; while he who observes the mean has no peculiar name.

Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

The first travelers were conquerors, not interested in looking, but in having.

You have to put yourself in the situation that you might fail.

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life striving after something he thinks will make him so

Elected officials deposed each other by lawsuits.

Yet would we die as some have done:Beating a way for the rising sun.

The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

I'm a dreamer. I freely and readily admit that. But I consider that one of my strongest qualities.

To hope is to wait for things to come to you. To dream is part of the process of setting goals and then striving to achieve them. You first must dream of doing things before you can do them.

The key to success? Work hard, stay focused and marry a Kennedy.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision something, you can do it.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas bring me big ideas to match our future.