Quotes About Ambition

One does not advance when one walks toward no goal, or - which is the same thing - when his goal is infinity.

When there is no other aim but to outstrip constantly the point arrived at, how painful to be thrown back!...Since imagination is hungry for novelty, and ungoverned, it gropes at random

If you don't have a target-you'll never know if you have a hit or a miss!

Cicerone disse che Cesare aveva sempre mirato a diventare «re dei romani e signore del mondo».

Non siamo più ai tempi dei Pizarro, degli Almagro, dei Cortez, i grandi conquistatori degli imperi americani. Che disgrazia non essere nati due o trecento anni fa! Io e Sandokan avremmo forse conquistata anche l'Africa intera.

Acaso no seguimos siendo los viejos Tigres de Mompracem?- repuso el portugués-. Donde ponemos las garras, arrancamos lo que queremos. ¿Quieres una prueba?

We'd never know how high we are, till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our statures touch the sky.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

When you run for office you have to be willing to lose.

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

We never know how high we areTill we are called to riseAnd then, if we are true to planOur statures touch the skies.

But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.

Some inquire from genuine love of knowledge, or from a real wish to improve what they ask about; others to see their name in the papers.

Women have now marvelous means of winning their way in the world, and mind without muscle has far greater force than muscle without mind.

There is nothing in the life before us comparable in interest to the tragic, gradual cracking of the great mind; the overtasking of the great capital, and the ensuing failure; the spectacle of heaving genius breaking in the contact with misfortune.

A person can do anything whom has nothing to lose.

ta v?n làm th?? Có bao gi? chúng ta ??t câu h?i, t?i sao chúng ta l?i làm th? không? Lòng ta còn ham ti?n b?c, danh v?ng, ??a v?, s?c kh?e, và ch? c?u bình an cho chính mình thôi, nên ch?ng bao gi? th?a mãn.

When you have a child, you get a surge of ambition, or a surge of hormonal urgency, to get something done, something worthy of your new station in life.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.

Well, you live your life the way you want, I live mine the way I want. We see who makes it farther.

You know what kind of person it takes to run for President? Not normal. They could start out okay, but by the time they reach that level they've sold their soul to the devil so many times and stomped the guts out of enough people that they are definitely not like you and me, not even close.

He'd been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants ... which he'd accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much as the next person.

If you don't know where you want to go, I suppose any path will get you there.

I think you've got to be truthful about the life you have. Otherwise, there's no possibility of achieving the life you want.