Quotes About Ambition

Ei s'immerge ne la notte, Ei s'aderge in vèr' le stelle. He plunges into the night, He reaches for the stars.

anyway, the money was great, but the corporate world just wasn't to my liking. i guess i'm not a team player--or an ass-kisser.

because it's not enough to have a dream—you need financing.

J. P. Morgan once said, "If you want something too much, you will not succeed in getting it.

Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!

Success is man's god.

Not for laggards doth a contest wait.

Would that I might get a mantle like unto the heavens!

Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, "Let no more riches enter!"

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

Stoop to conquer.

You may share the labours of the great, but you may not share the spoil.

To try and to fail, is not laziness

the real tragedy of life was that you got what you wanted...

One has to dare if one wants to get anywhere,' said Mrs. Bantry.

Born poor doesn't mean you've got to stay poor. Money's queer. It goes where it's wanted.

When I want to get anywhere, I usually do.

It is the courage, the insistence, the ruthless force of youth.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human. Your criminal is someone who wants to be important, but who never will be important, because he'll always be less than a man

It wasn't what you were born to, and no good comes from getting out of your station in life.

But nothing will suit him now but the best! He's got on wonderfully, and naturally he wants something to show for it, but many's the time I wonder where it will end.

I often find these self-made men are inconsiderate. Very possibly that is why they amass such large fortunes.

Even the most sober of us is liable to have his head turned by success.

So, if I lost all my money, you'd drop me tomorrow?' 'Yes, darling, I would. You can't say I'm not honest about it! I only like successful people. And you'll find that's true of nearly everybody - only most people won't admit it. They just say that really they "can't put up with Mary or Emily or Pamela any more! Her troubles have made her so bitter and peculiar, poor dear!