Quotes About Ambition

I've lived in this city all my life. I grew up on the Upper East Side. And when I was ten years old, I was rich, I was an aristocrat. Riding around in taxis, surrounded by comfort, and all I thought about was art and music. Now, I'm 36, and all I think about is money.

What ever happened to the passion we all had to improve ourselves, live up to our potential, leave a mark on the world? Our hottest arguments were always about how we could contribute. We did not care about the rewards. We were young and earnest.

Though I have been busy, perhaps overbusy, all my life, it seems to me now that I have accomplished little that matters, that the books have never come up to what was in my head, and that the rewards—the comfortable income, the public notice, the literary prizes, and the honorary degrees—have been tinsel, not what a grown man should be content with.

Satisfying natural desires is fine, but natural desires have a way of being both competitive and consequential.

Largeness is a lifelong matter. You grow because you are not content not to. You are like a beaver that chews constantly because if it doesn't, it's teeth grow long and lock. You grow because you are a grower; you're large because you can't stand to be small.

If you wanted something, you planned for it, worked for it, and made it happen.

She will burn bright until she goes out; she will go on standing on tiptoe till she falls.

She will burn bright until she goes out; she will go on standing on tiptoe until she falls.

Ambition is a path, not a destination, and it is essentially the same path for everybody. No matter what the goal is, the path leads through Pilgrim's Progress regions of motivation, hard work, persistence, stubbornness, and resilience under disappointment. Unconsidered, merely indulged, ambition becomes a vice; it can turn a man into a machine that knows nothing but how to run. Considered, it can be something else - pathway to the stars, maybe.

In my experience, the world's happiest man is a young professor building bookcases.

We all hitched our wagons to the highest stars we could find.

She resents rusting unburnished when she wants to shine in use.

Unconsidered, merely indulged, ambition becomes a vice; it can turn a man into a machine that knows nothing but how to run. Considered, it can be something else -- pathway to the stars, maybe.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Man has to fight for what he wants, any way he can.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do

The greatest plesure in life is doing what people say you cannot do