Quotes About Ambition

We choose to go to the moon.

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. [Address at Rice University, September 12 1962]

the world was so big, so full of things I could master.

You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love.

League before landing the job in Charlotte in 1998. He was only thirty

so-and-so is using?' You just knew. I never held it against anyone. It was one of those things where you knew they were just trying to keep their jobs, extend their careers. I guess I didn't

As Washington, Adams, and Jefferson reached the cusp of adulthood, each exhibited a passion for independence. Each hungered for emancipation from the entanglements of childhood and sought to carve out an autonomous existence. The handmaiden to each young man's zeal for self-mastery was a propulsive ambition that drove him to yearn for more than his father had attained, for more even than his father had ever hoped to achieve.

Adams drew back. He wanted Hannah, but he did not live for her. Making a name for himself was more important. He told her that he could not marry for years, until his practice was established. He knew that his honesty would doom the relationship, and Hannah in fact began to see others. Adams's ambition had triumphed over love.

We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea whose depths are shaken by subterranean upheavals.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

Someday they will name a big airport after me, until then I'll just eat this lovely sandwich.

He didn't look back. He never did

I'm not really interested in being king. I prefer to work for a living

It is possible, of course...to want to do two different things at the same time. Then it just becomes a choice of knowing which one you want most.

Halt seemed more antagonized by the fact that his brother didn't like coffee than by the fact that he had stolen the throne from him.

In his experience, when a person suggested that someone needed to be elected leader, they often had themselves in mind for the position.

Control is made of knowing what we have, and what we want,' said the daemon, and I felt an echo of its satisfaction shiver through me. 'Power is having something that someone else wants and cannot have.

A goal, in itself, is an empty thing; all the virtue lies in the moving toward the goal.

Most of us plateau when we lose the tension between where we are and where we ought to be.

that yearning inside you that seeks for fulfillment - does it still burn?...

ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know...

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.

Caesar is not really very interesting: Cassius is the part. I