Quotes About Ambition

Christopher Columbus should have set out to discover America with a boatload of madmen.

Your job is to focus on my personal happiness, she said, & I've got big plans, so break time is over.

What I'm mostly good at is sleeping, he once told me in confidence, but he added, I don't see much future in it.

Trapped mainly by wanting things to be exactly as they are, only better

I'm here to build the future, he said & she looked up & said How about we start you on the present then? & he was fine with that as long as there was a chance to move up & years later, he finally understood why she smiled & let him jump right in. —Begin Here

It's not that I'm not serious, he said. I just don't think of it as a career like the rest of them. —Serious Decision

If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.

Politicians compete for the highest offices. Business tycoons scramble for a bigger and bigger piece of the pie. Armies march and scientists study and philosophers philosophise and preachers preach and labourers sweat. But in that silent baby, lying in that humble manger, there pulses more potential power and wisdom and grace and aliveness than all the rest of us can imagine.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

What chances are you willing to take to get what you want? What dangers do your choices create for other people?

Some say it is better to rule in hell than serve in heaven. That is a defeatist attitude. I intend to rule everywhere, not just in Hell." - General Agamemnon New Memoirs

He knew why the birds chose not to fly away, lingering until it was no longer an option. Did they see themselves flying as high as eagles? Everything needed a dream of itself as greater than it was.

Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars, whoopee!

When I was young," wrote Jim, "my ambition was to be one of the people who makes a difference in this world. My hope still is to leave this world a little bit better for my being here." And he did.

This guy was like a sailor who had studied the compass and found that there was a fifth direction in which one could sail." (Jerry Juhl on being offered a job with Muppets, Inc.)

Work smarter, not harder," was Scrooge's motto, and his stories were full of inventive schemes that, more often than not, made him even richer and more successful. In Scrooge's world, hard work paid off, yes — but so did cleverness and a desire to do something in a way no one had ever thought of before.

careers get stuck in a perennial state of agitated stagnation.

I tried to make money as a kid. I had a lemonade stand for about six weeks. I made no money. I had to burn it down and collect insurance.

IRVING: Flowery prose. Verbosity. Some folks think they're Neil Gaiman, and have ambitions of their scripts being reprinted for their adoring fans to pore over, when in reality, scripts are working documents designed to provide the narrative framework for their collaborators to decorate and embellish with imagery.

Success is a fickle mistress. If you go chasing her, she will ignore you. If you leave her alone and just go about your business, she might come looking for you.

If you're not falling, you're not really trying hard enough. JOE QUESADA Joe Quesada is an award-winning comics creator and the chief creative officer of Marvel Entertainment, who served as editor-in chief of Marvel for over a decade.

With one hundred miles left to go in the Klondike 200 I began imagining how amazed people would be at the finished line. Entering the Klondike, my sights had been set on merely finishing.

Dreams larger than ourselves we killed, not wanting our smallness measured against them." (poem: Having Taken the Necessary Precautions)

I challenge you to be dreamers I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.