Quotes About Ambition

It'll be an unholy muddle, that's for sure," he was saying. "Me and Hardin and Baker all with our claws out for the same seat. The thing will have to be done carefully or we'll end up with out tidy little Whig house divided." "Why don't you take turns?" "It's worth thinking about, but no matter how much you'd like politics to be a cotillion it just naturally wants to be a dirt fight.

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.

Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up.

I spent my life trying to get out of Oklahoma because I was too good for Oklahoma. Then I got to the Ivy League and the people seemed to be so, you know, little. They were fundamentally bigots. They

If I don't make it, I'll be very sad that there are things I didn't do, but I'm happy that I've done what I have.

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will.

Surely if we all try hard, we can all lift ourselves up high above the average. It looks a little difficult mathematically, but that's nothing.

To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will.

i want to be a singer

Bill Gates's story was never rags to riches, a Harvard friend once remarked, but riches to riches—though the initial affluence, embellished to include such fictions as a million-dollar trust fund, was now utterly insignificant.

declare war on those parts of themselves that keep them from exceptional lives.

wishes are like magnifying glasses they enlarge and focus an intention that is already inside us.

i hope i sell some books soonest

To dream by night is to escape your life. To dream by day is to make it happen.

Success will be within your reach only when you start reaching out for it.

No matter how small you start, always dream big.

Start with big dreams and make life worth living.

Don't dare to dream big, just dream BIG!

Winning is great, but if it's not enough then then you'll never have enough!

You don't manifest dreams without taking chances.

It's no shame in reaching second or third base if you aimed for first base.

Your dreams will come true, but do not be overly demanding. Be logical – there are not enough mansions for everyone in the world, are there?