Quotes About Ambition

war grows out of desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

The object of your definite chief aim should become your hobby. You should ride this hobby continuously; you should sleep with it, eat with it, play with it, work with it, live with it and THINK with it.

Thoughts are things, and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire...

Awake, arise, and assert yourself, you dreamers of the world.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.

What the mind can conceive, it can ACHIEVE!

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat. Only by so doing can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as

He had no influence. But he did have initiative, faith, and the will to win.

Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth.

UN LÂCHEUR NE GAGNE JAMAIS ET UN GAGNEUR NE LÂCHE JAMAIS.

The only "break" anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made "break.

Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success, for how may a man be sure that he has attained success unless he has established in his mind some definite object that he wishes?

Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?

One's dominating desires can be crystallized into their physical equivalents through definiteness of purpose backed by definiteness of plans with the aid of rhythm and time

Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognise failure, will bring riches.

Success comes to those who become success conscious.

that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win.

Children are sent to school to make credits and to learn how to memorize, not to learn what they want of life.

Tidak ada hal lain yang akan didapati oleh seorang yang sudah mengorbankan segalanya hari ini untuk satu impiannya di masa nanti, kecuali dia akan bertemu dengan impiannya itu

DESIRE—knowing what you want.

El fracaso es un embustero con un agudo sentido de la ironía y de la astucia. Se deleita en hacer tropezar cuando el éxito está casi al alcance. UNA

DESIRE for money, and actually

It should be remembered also that the outlook from the bottom is not so very bright or encouraging. It has a tendency to kill off ambition. We call it "getting into a rut," which means that we accept our fate because we form the HABIT of daily routine, a habit that finally becomes so strong we cease to try to throw it off.