Quotes About Ambition

I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.

The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning.

What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!

Eventually, out of sheer will of never wanting to get a job or go to college, I found my way into doing music full-time.

I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel of all time you see -- one has to keep oneself afloat.

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

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.

Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better.

I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

Write without pay until someone offers pay. If nobody offers within three years, the candidate may look upon this as a sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

He had a dream and it shot him.

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you want.

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. - Mark Twain

This ain't no thirty-seven year job, this is a thirty-eight year job, Tom Sawyer.

I can help anyone get anything they want out of life. The only problem is that I can't find anyone who knows what they want.

Man will do MANY things to get himself loved. Man will do ALL things to get himself envied.

I have never tried, in even one single little instance, to help cultivate the cultivated classes. I was not equipped for it either by native gifts or training. And I never had any ambition in that direction, but always hunted for bigger game--the masses. - Mark Twain, a Biography

Držite se podalje od ljudi koji žele omalovažiti vaše ambicije. Sitne duše to rade svo vreme, a samo zaista veliki ljudi ulivaju vam ose?aj da i vi možete postati veliki

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher

Klonite se ljudi koji ?e pokušati omalovažiti vaše ambicije. Mali ljudi ?ine takve stvari, dok veliki ljudi mogu u?uniti da se osetite da i vi možate postati veliki

Mrs Kerslake: but if there is no chance of being offered a place at Oxford, surely-? Simon Kerslake: Thats not what i said Mother, I shall be an undergraduate at Oxford by the first day of term

All the memories in the world, good or bad, are not worth one slender hope for the future; and