Quotes About Ambition

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without winds.

Ustani i hodaj -nare?ivala je Gala. –Još ni u ?emu nisi uspeo. Moraš da pri?ekaš smrt!

El termómetro del éxito es simplemente la envidia de los descontentos.

L'intelligenza senza ambizione è come un uccello senza ali.

I still had to invent and write a great philosophic work, which I had begun a year before, and which was called, "The Tower of Babel." I had already written five hundred pages of it, and I was still only on the Prologue! At this period my sexual anxiety disappeared almost completely, and the philosophic theories of my book took up all the room in my psychic activity.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.

He shook his head violently from side to side in an attempt to drag his mind from this morass, and to imagine another, better, life, one without so many commas.

To win,you must have both talent an desire- but desire first.

One of the great paradoxes of management is that the people who pursue leadership positions most ardently are often the wrong people for the job. They're motivated by the prestige the role conveys rather than a desire to promote the goals and values of the organization.

What I realized about this glorious experience, years later, is that it had forever modified my expectations. The Bombers gave me a taste of what it was like to play on an excellent team, and this had rewired my brain to believe it was my God-given right to experience the same sensation many times over.

High expectations are the key to everything.

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

It is a story about entrepreneurship, and risk, and hard work, and knowing where you want to go and being willing to do what it takes to get there.

So, as William honed his skill at Bengali, his thoughts vacillated from triumph to failure. 'Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God' he reminded himself. What could be more ambitious, festering in a muddy forest with a distraught wife, than to begin translating the Bible into Bengali?

Unsaid was her conviction that all this was in preparation for some future endeavor. But what?

I didn't set out to be famous if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'

Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.

I . . . cannot fall asleep because there is a foreign feeling in my veins, it is the feeling of finally getting what I wanted, and the feeling is colder than I ever thought it would be.

A man who has to forge his own tools, his own language, is a man who is going somewhere.