Quotes About Ambition

shall have to write some raunchy stuff if I'm going to make much money.

As a child I had wanted to become an automobile, but then I grew up to be thirty years old.

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom!

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.

Germany was an ambitious young nation.

I say you ought to get rich, and it is your duty to get rich…. Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it! You ought because you can do more good with it than you could without it.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are, in Philadelphia, now.

Russell H. Conwell

man,' I said to him, 'with the proper determination and ambition can study sufficiently at night to win his desire.

The opportunity to attain great wealth is within the reach of almost every man and woman. Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings. It is all wrong to be poor, anyhow.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Those were his exact words, "an insatiable lust for power and money".

I prefer to be noticed, some day, first for my ideas and second for my good eye . . .

Foolishly perhaps, but determined none the less, I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed. That goal is the real goal as far as I am concerned…

Upward mobility was part of the Dutch character: if you worked hard and were smart, you rose in stature. Today that is a byword of a healthy society; in the seventeenth century it was weird.

The first Manhattanites didn't arrive with lofty ideals. They came--whether as farmer, tanner, prostitute, wheelwright, barmaid, brewer, or trader--because there was a hope for a better life. There was a distinct messiness to the place they created. But it was very real, and in a way, very modern.

There are no failures, only quitters

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

The hero we sympathize with because he is in love or cherishes some personal ambition, they condemn as weak because he has allowed these feelings to come between him and his gimu or his giri.

Whatever you do, never stop dreaming. Think it over.

My body is on the earth, but my head is in the stars.