Quotes About Ambition

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

Sir, your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

Indeed, it is sobering to think that the Great American Novel to come will have so little to do with the famous "American Dream" but will have to be far nearer a contemporary Les Misérables.

Neurotics proceed with delusions of grandeur. Napoleon Bonaparte take the lead. Jesus Christ bring up the rear.

Because the zest of life is effort, my son, not attainment.

He realized all at once that ambition and love might not make good bedfellows, that a choice between them might be necessary.

I found myself thinking of Potts as a tragic figure, a guy who'd been a happy towheaded kid you'd love to take fishing with you, who'd mistakenly invested in academic medicine when he'd have been happy in his family business, and who'd become a splattered mess on the parking lot of a hospital in a city he'd despised. What had been the seductiveness of medicine? Why?

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Never doubt your capacity to achieve and accomplish your goals. The world is your oyster, go find you pearls.

The only plan that truly matters is the one you have for yourself.

Creating your life's work does not come from choosing safety and comfort over growth.

It is not "higher" to be poor, for it often takes money to accomplish your life's work.

Do not take no for an answer

Entrepreneurs give up sense of entitlement for school/university or how much money you were able to raise so far. Nothing succeeds like success.

I loved it and the only things that came between me and a career in the stars was an inability to comprehend science and a fear of flying.

Those Astronauts, keep on hanging, to those dreams. Lal Kitab

Standing on the earth and think to fly high.