Quotes About Ambition

The first step to getting the tings you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

The indispensable first step to getting things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Since the dawn of time, nearly every man (and I'd wager to guess most women) has, at his most visceral level, secretly desired for one thing - to be standing triumphantly atop a heaping pile of his slain enemies, holding a gigantic axe aloft while some unbelievably attractive member of whatever gender he's attracted to desperately clutches his leg like it's the last life raft on the HMS Titanic.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

The things which… are esteemed as the greatest good of all… can be reduced to these three headings: to wit, Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.

And when he dreams he does not want to write, he does not have the power to dream he wants to write; and when he dreams he wants to write, he does not have the power to dream he does not want to write.

I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I'm not talking about acting or anything like that, I'm talking about people I admire, whether it's a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever.

It's funny, but when I arrived in California to start college I was much more interested in becoming a surfer and cruise along in life from one beach to the next. I didn't plan out any huge career for myself.

Vivimos de prisa, y, como nuestra existencia es cada día más corta en razón á la celeridad con que caminamos, naturalmente queremos abarcar mucho y muchas cosas en breve tiempo, siempre ante el temor de llegar demasiado tarde y de que otros nos lleven la delantera.

Era aquello un nido, una hechura de políticos, de periodistas, de tribunos, de agitadores, de ministros, y daba gusto ver con cuánto donaire rompían el cascarón los traviesos polluelos.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

There is no gambling like politics.

The ambitious pope had already discussed the Sistine ceiling with Michelangelo in 1506, probably while they were together in Bologna. No doubt Julius, an art lover, had heard of the huge success of the twin cartoons for the city hall frescoes in Florence. It is very likely that his summons to Michelangelo was also a way for the jealous Roman pontiff to sabotage the Florentine fresco project. We do know that Michelangelo never went back to that job.

Michelangelo was aiming with his frescoes, we modestly suggest that if he had dared to give the giant artwork a title he might have called it "The Bridge.

When you run a marathon, you mean it. We're built for running. We dream of flying. For now, though, we're built to run.

He is a self-made man, very much in love with his creator.

Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

Life is too short to be little.

Success is the child of audacity.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Nothing can resist a human will that will stake its existence on a purpose

Nothing resists a human will that stakes its very existence upon the achievement of its purpose

The East is a career.