Quotes About Ambition

A great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On.

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

He was strong and unforgiving, a bully, and I saw that he would be that way for the rest of his life; and for this same reason I suspected that he would always be successful in whatever he did, and I despised and feared him for that.

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

I thought to myself, 'why not write a bestseller?' In the first place, more people buy them and more people read them. You make more money and it doesn't take any more time to write a bestseller than it does to write a book nobody buys.

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.

King Kong would have made it to the top if only he had taken the elevator.

That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

Give me a spirit that on this life's rough seaLoves t' have his sails filled with a lusty wind,Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack,And his rapt ship run on her side so lowThat she drinks water, and her keel plows air.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry the task you set for yourself to fulfillment.

The reason why we have never found measure of wealth. We never sought it.

In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded.

The only failure is not to try

It is never too late to be what we might have been.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.