Quotes About Ambition

The most overpowering will is the will to not work.

DESTINY (Determined Effort So Tanacious It Negates Yuck)

I was just trying to open the doors... but walls fell down

Sometimes in life, we need to be pushed to conquer our fears, challenge our nightmares, realized our dreams and achieved our goals, in order to be the best we can be. - CG Murphy

You can use your imagination to get exactly what you desire.

I refuse to settle for what you call reality.

Learn soon...Reach moon by bus, if you late ...they will kike you out

In this world, two ilk of men exist-those who think they don't need to, and those who think they must. A third alien type exists when indecisiveness is involved.

Copy cats may seem good at what they are doing, but they will never find a spot at the top.

I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty it fights dirty.

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

To reign is worth ambition though in hell:Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.

Yet some there be that by due steps aspireTo lay their just hands on that golden keyThat opes the palace of Eternity.

Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.

When men competed for positions of power, it was generally acknowledged that the ones who got it were invariably the ones who could least be trusted with it.

So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.

May the cheering contemplation of the glorious hope set before us—support and animate us to improve our short interval on earth, and fill us with a holy ambition of shining as lights in this evil world, to the praise and glory of His grace—who has called us out of darkness, into His glorious light!

Well, Chum, the poor man's Bing Crosby is still making with the throat here in Chi. but if the present good fortune keeps up I ought to be getting the New York break pretty soon.

Abraham Lincoln: Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

There was no question in my mind on that muggy August day that within less than a year - and on my father's birthday - Look Back in Anger would have opened, in what still seems like an inordinately long, sharp and glimmering summer.

She was immovable and denied, in teh face of the week's passing, that a two-and-a-half-day job had become a seven-day obsession. She was the grotesque adult embodiment of that properly despised schoolboy creature of fretful, incontinent ambition, a swot.

Jimmy: One day, when I'm no longer spending my days running a sweet-stall, I may write a book about us all. It's all here. (slapping his forehead) Written in flames a mile high. And it won't be recollected in tranquillity either, picking daffodils with Auntie Wordsworth. It'll be recollected in fire, and blood. My blood.

Buddy was offered a number of more important jobs. He turned them all down, but helped the Leadership Council find other good candidates. His lack of ambition came to be seen as great humility. The birds loved him even more.