Quotes About Ambition

Look where you want to go.

what he wants. And

Anything seemed possible if you had ingenuity, money, and tenacity. But the body doesn't play by those rules.

It satisfied the edict my mother had issued many times throughout my life: "You have to make your own living; you never want to be dependent on a man.

Jesus," said my father, when I called to tell him I'd been hired to write for The New Yorker. "Well, nowhere to go but down.

Sólo hay una fuerza motriz: el deseo.

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold.

It's the fastest who gets paid, and it's the fastest who gets laid.

it is all wrong that a person who is going to be deemed worthy of the office should himself solicit it... for no one who is not ambitious would ask to hold office.

men are guilty of the greatest crimes from ambition, and not from necessity

Yet ambition and avarice, almost more than any other passions, are the motives of crime.

There is only one driving force: The desire.

Dream! That's all you need to do.

Most people who are ruined are ruined by attempting too much.

There grows in the North Country a certain kind of youth of whom it may be said that he is born to be a Londoner.

If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions; if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin. Lie down again and resume the uneasy doze which you call your existence.

His was the kind of perseverance that, for the fun of it, will perish in an attempt.

You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.

Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Be hungry for success, hungry to make your mark, hungry to be seen and to be heard and to have an effect. And as you move up and become successful, make sure also to be hungry for helping others.

All I know is that the first step is to create a vision, because when you see the vision – the beautiful vision – that creates the want power.