Quotes About Ambition

only those who slavishly worship success can think that effectiveness is admirable without regard to what is effected.

But what the typical modern man desires to get with it is more money, with a view to ostentation, splendour, and the outshining of those who have hitherto been his equals. The social scale in America is indefinite and continually fluctuating. Consequently all the snobbish emotions become more restless than they are where the social order is fixed, and although money in itself may not suffice to make people grand, it is difficult to be grand without money.

The tragedy of one successful politician after another is the gradual substitution of narcissism for an interest in the community and the measures for which he stands.

work and hope. But never hope more than you work.

Bookmakers tread on each other's toes, on mine, on anybody's, or stand flat-footed scowling at scraps of paper clutched like passports to El Dorado.

end, I hope you'll make the discovery that he did so long ago—the discovery that affection counts for more than ambition. That loving and being loved by Jesus matters more than all that the world can obtain or contain.

Desiring is a part of dreaming.

The tale of Enron is a story of human weakness, of hubris and greed and rampant self-delusion; of ambition run amok; of a grand experiment in the deregulated world; of a business model that didn't work; and of smart people who believed their next gamble would cover their last disaster—and who couldn't admit they were wrong.

I lined up with the Republicans because they were antitax, and I wanted to make a lot of money.

I got through college realizing business was repugnant.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.

I did not want to be somebody who lived off his reputation. I wanted to continue to be part of the modern music scene.

We have continued to advance our global ambition with acquisitions that fill in the global footprint, such as Dabo in Dubai on the marketing side, Smithfield in the U.K. for financial PR, Ergo in Germany for corporate reputation and public affairs, and Position in Colombia to add scale to our Latin America business.

People are dying to get a National Award... it's a national reputation.

All I wanted to do was win. People have to remember that when I came to Duke, they'd started to get a reputation that they can't win the big game. We were aware of that, and we hated it.

I'm in the NHL and I'll take whatever reputation I can to get here and to stay here.

For more than 15 years, Mogwai has built a reputation on its monstrous ambitions for rock music.

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

But politics is something that would require so much of me. I'm a public figure now, but as a politician... It's more likely that I'll become a sportscaster than a politician.

I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'

Fortunately, the films I do not require too much of glamour. Those are the kinds of roles I'm looking for.

I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.

Motherhood may be a 'killer' when it comes to becoming a Master of the Universe, but among middle-class mothers, even after that touch of baby's lips to bosom, a big and growing number find themselves able - and often required - to bring home the family bacon.