Quotes About Ambition

Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'Tis the stone that will turn all your lead into gold.

There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.

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Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men," I

Great hopes make everything great possible.

I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements, makes the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

Maybe Virginia Woolf thought about going to the lighthouse, but I doubt she ever got there, or the novel might have ended differently.

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

School was preparation for the future... and he had no intention to go into the future unprepared.

I never remember politics being quite as unpleasant as this before; but maybe this is what life is like at the top.

Office is something that builds up a man only if he is somebody in his own right.

I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.

Our attitude needs to be like Elisha's: "I'm not staying around here. I'm going beyond here to my double portion!

He had a kind of urgent drive to be forever producing something, to get involved in more and more projects, to leave traces. To the people who, like Claire Nancy, rebuked him sometimes for publishing too much, he replied: 'I can't help it. It's my way of fighting against death.

I am a great believer that the risk should reflect the reward.

Wu-Tang was going through it. They didn't come from great homes or families. They really came from hard beginnings so it just made me reflect on my own situation. If Wu-Tang was able to make it, why can't I?

You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now.

Sure, it comes with a lot of bonus rewards, whatever it may be, some of it may be financial. And it is great to have been No 1 in the world, when you get a bit older you can reflect on it. But I was No 1 in the world before I actually was No 1 in the world, in my mind at least.

I've had to do some soul-searching at times. I reflect a lot, not on where I have been but where I want to go and how to get there.

I don't do a lot of reflecting. I'm usually about getting on with it.

A leadership competition is not an ideal context for honest reflection. The aim is, after all, to win, not to learn and build.

The idea was never for me to be a career bureaucrat or career technocrat; it was more about where I could implement ideas and reform programs.

The kids of America, please get a damn job. Get out of the house, leave the refrigerator alone. Stop wearing my shoes. Leave my shirts alone, get a job. Spend your own money.