Quotes About Ambition

I have never met the man who had vision large enough to appreciate my genius, he said simply. Perhaps it was not to be expected.

I'm beginning to wish you had to work for a living.

Do you know, it has of late become an ambition of mine to hear my name on your lips instead of my title

For he seldom fails who is not wanting to himself; while those who depend upon the assistance of others, appear very often to fall short of their aims.

He had all the essential attributes for high office; the morals of a politician, the Machiavellian mind of a con man, and a wife who was related to half the top brass in the force. He couldn't fail.

El único problema que tienen los sueños es que no puedes elegir cuáles te tocan.

The Monk then undertook to tell us the history of the world -- an over-ambitious project, I thought, but it passed the time.

Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?

I have so much inertia and so little initiative that very possibly if you had not kept me from taking my degree I would have, well, not taken to the practice of medicine, but at any rate to pathological psychology and you don't know how little I like pathological psychology, and how all medicine bores me.

I would like to tell you that I wrote my book to push back artistic boundaries. But I didn't. I wrote it to impress a girl.

We all need to work together, because there are no jobs on a dead planet; there is no equity without rights to decent work and social protection, no social justice without a shift in governance and ambition, and, ultimately, no peace for the peoples of the world without the guarantees of sustainability.

Our goal in Washington must not be to impose but to expect and assist: Expect the most of educators and students and assist them as they work together to meet those expectations. Rather than tightening our grip, we should set clear, ambitious goals and support innovative local efforts to achieve them.

When I tried to send him beats in 2010, he told me I was too expensive for him. I told Future we had to work together, that it would be beneficial for both of us, that we didn't have to worry about the money.

I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane.

I'm kind of a workaholic.

I am a workaholic, have always been.

I'm just basically a workaholic.

I'm a workaholic, so I read everything that's out there.

For the record, I'm a clinical workaholic.

I am a workaholic. I like to work, work, work.

I'm a workaholic, and I know it. And I don't care to deal with it.

You're not going to go far unless you're a workaholic.

People think I am a workaholic but I just love business.

I am a workaholic and constantly want to do something.