Quotes About Ambition

Greatness! Extraordinariness! Conquest of the world and immortality of the name! What good was all the happiness of people eternally unknown compared with this goal?

Wußtest du nicht, daß man auch in einer kleinen Stadt ein großer Mann sein kann? Daß man ein Cäsar sein kann an einem mäßigen Handelsplatz an der Ostsee? Freilich, dazu gehört ein wenig Phantasie, ein wenig Idealismus ... und den besaßest du nicht, was du auch von dir selbst gedacht haben magst.

Perfectionism, of course, was something which even as a young man he had come to see as the innermost essence of talent.

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

The Need to Win When an archer is shooting for nothing He has all his skill. If he shoots for a brass buckle He is already nervous. If he shoots for a prize of gold He goes blind Or sees two targets – He is out of his mind. His skill has not changed, But the prize Divides him. He cares, He thinks more of winning Than of shooting – And the need to win Drains him of power.

Finally, I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am.

However, October is a fine and dangerous season in America. It is dry and cool and the land is wild with red and gold and crimson, and all the lassitudes of August have seeped out of your blood, and you are full of ambition. It is a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

Excerpt from Cracking the Safe: Thus what the world calls good business is only a way To gather up the loot, pack it, make it secure In one convenient load for the more enterprising thieves. Who is there, among those called smart, Who does not spend his time amassing loot For a bigger robber than himself?

Learn to live small and you will discover great pleasures. You will accomplish more in your life than you could ever predict if you were overly ambitious.

But anyone who deliberately tries to get himself elected to a public office is permanently disqualified from holding one.

Most of the people I know who are having trouble finding their life work are somewhat passive in style. They wait for something good to happen to them rather than make strong positive moves.

The bird let loose in eastern skies, When hastening fondly home, Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, nor flies Where idle warblers roam; But high she shoots through air and light, Above all low delay, Where nothing earthly bounds her flight, Nor shadows dim her way.

Explosion without an objective," declared Miles Blundell, "is politics in its purest form.

a pocket full of spare change and anger unlimited, what more does a 30-year-old innocent need to make his way in the city?

Children who drank the milk from the dairy cows who grazed nearby were found leaning against telegraph poles listening to the traffic speeding by through the wires above their heads, or going off to work in stockbrokers' offices where, unsymmetrically intimate with the daily flow of prices, they were able to amass fortunes before anyone noticed.

Your task, in these dreams, is often to pens.

He's capital.

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.

opportunity alone is not sufficient for economic or other accomplishments.

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

Oh, with you, I could conquer the world - oh, with you I could catch hold of the moon like a little silver sixpence.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.