Quotes About Ambition

It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.

but why was he the way he was? Why, when in fact he was a shy and timid person, was he compelled to be number one and champion of the world in eating and drinking, why was he always fleeing from us, and when unable to flee, why the awful theatrics, the showing off?

Be a dreamer of reality

Ireland has a very different attitude to success than a lot of places, certainly than over here in the United States. In the United States, you look at the guy that lives in the mansion on the hill, and you think, you know, one day, if I work really hard, I could live in that mansion. In Ireland, people look up at the guy in the mansion on the hill and go, one day, I'm going to get that bastard. It's a different mind-set.

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.

your dreams don't scare you, they are not big enough.

don't scare you, they are not big enough.

Un trabajo es un sitio donde haces algo que, en el fondo, no te gusta durante unas ocho horas al día cinco o seis días a la semana a cambio de dinero que te permita hacer el fin de semana las cosas que te gustaría hacer todo el tiempo.

There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

Among a large class there seemed to be a dependence upon the Government for every conceivable thing. The members of this class had little ambition to create a position for themselves, but wanted the Federal officials to create one for them.

The ambition to secure an education was most praiseworthy and encouraging. The idea, however, was too prevalent that, as soon as one secured a little education, in some unexplainable way he would be free from most of the hardships of the world, and, at any rate, could live without manual labour. There was a further feeling that a knowledge, however little, of the Greek and Latin languages would make one a very superior human being, something bordering almost on the supernatural.

In later years, I confess that I do not envy the white boy as I once did. I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of race.

never liked the atmosphere of Washington. I early saw that it was impossible to build up a race of which the leaders were spending most of their time, thought, and energy in trying to get into office, or in trying to stay there after they were in. So, for the greater part of my life, I have avoided Washington; and even now I rarely spend a day in that city which I do not look upon as a day practically thrown away.

My whole soul was so bent upon reaching Hampton that I did not have time to cherish any bitterness toward the hotel-keeper.

Do not be satisfied with second-hand or third-hand things in life. Do not be satisfied until you have put yourselves into that atmosphere where you can seize and hold on to the very highest and most beautiful things that can be got out of life.

Booth Tarkington

People forget sometimes, in order to become number one, you have to be a bit crazy. You have to do things out of the norm.

I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.

You can make a throne of bayonets, but you cant sit on it for long.

Murigande was a tough opponent, the kind you were obliged to respect while dreaming every night of cutting him into little pieces.

Competition, which is said to be "the life of trade," when pushed too far, is no less the death of it--and of the soul.