Quotes About Ambition

Self-complacency is fatal to progress.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.

Competition is about passion for perfection, and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

The person who wants to make it has to sweat. There are no short cuts. And you've got to have the guts to be hated.

Actor-manager - one to whom the part is greater than the whole.

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.

The prayer of the chicken hawk does not get him the chicken.

So much to do; so little done.

The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded as happy.

What we want is never simple.

For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be a hundred or if I get to be a trillionaire.

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve things, as revenge. To show that I could.

Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.

When I was very young, I tried selling used cars. It didn't last long. I guess that was my good luck too, that I didn't show more promise at it, or I might have been an automobile dealer.

He had come to that time in his life (it varies for every man) when a human being gives himself over to his demon or to his genius, according to a mysterious law which orders him either to destroy or to surpass himself.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Ambition destroys its possessor.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame, A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young.

The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.