Quotes About Ambition

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities." -Bruce Lee

In me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.

All men can do great things, if they know what great things are.

To try to live in posterity is to be like an actor who leaps over the footlights and talks to the orchestra.

The course of true anything never does run smooth.

For what is worth in anythingBut so much money as 'twill bring?

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money — or the want of money; but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

The course of true anything does not run smooth.

Homer tells us about some one who made it his business ±¹µ½ ±Á¹Ã??¹½ º±¹ ÅÀµ¹Á¿Ç¿½ µ¼¼µ½±¹ ±»»É½ — always to excel and to stand higher than other people. What an uncompanionable disagreeable person he must have been! Homer's heroes generally came to a bad end, and I

This is the thing that I was born to do.

Dream dreams and write them aye, but live them first.

In human affairs there is no snug harbor, no rest short of the grave. We are forever setting forth afresh across new and stormy seas, or into outer space.

T]hough I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it.

All I want is to be in the game.

Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the effervescence a subtle poison.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

But scarce observed, the knowing and the bold Fall in the general massacre of gold; Wide-wasting pest! that rages unconfined, And crowds with crimes the records of mankind; For gold his sword the hireling ruffian draws,

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.