Quotes About Ambition

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single herb or tree.

I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude.

I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

Of course, among the confused motives that spurred me toward being a writer was also the desire to look, to be above the trees and rooftops, beyond the Malaysian horizon that circumscribed my life.

Don't show your inferiority by climbing a stunted tree, show your superiority by climbing the longest and crooked one.

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.

If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now.

The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C's.They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence.

Trust me, all our dreams are breaking out

It's amazing what happens when you put your interests out into the universe and make it known what you want.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

The people who do the most extraordinary things in the world are never "realistic." They're passionate. They trust themselves.

Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.

In high school I was always thinking, 'Should I be doing more? What else should I be doing?' Now I know it will all come to me. I just have to trust my path, so that's very different.

dare greatly, think great.

Any time that you think you've hit the top of the mountain, the truth of the matter is you've just reached another mountain. And it's there to climb all over again.

The entire floor teeming with full-humans watching their children skate, all of them hoping to be the breeder of the next gold Olympian.

No. But I have incredible luck with dice and I am ruthless. You will lose, gentlemen. I will destroy your lands, take your women, ravish your men, and make your children my slave labor. I will own every castle, house, and farm that is within my reach. I won't be satisfied until I own all of it and you. I will destroy you all, gentlemen, and, to be quite blunt, I don't think you can handle it.

Success begins with figuring out what you want, then making the choices that will get you there. You'll notice I use that word a lot: choices.

If I had to sum it up, though, I would say ambition got me here—ambition supported by the conscious choices I made every step of the way.