Quotes About Ambition

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of licence that distinguishes New York. It is, rather, a lust of the total ego for recognition, even for eminence. More than elsewhere, everybody here wants to be Somebody.

America - the best poor man's country in the world.

America is a country of young men.

To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor, to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west. ... No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

The birds can fly, An' why can't I?

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.

Either you reach a higher point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

My generation of Canadians grew up believing that, if we were very good or very smart, or both, we would some day graduate from Canada.

I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.

He wants to be different from everyone else and daydreams of winning the global race, Parents unmarried and living abroad, relatives keen to bag the estate, schizophrenia not excluded, will he learn to grow up before it's too late?

Give us men to match our mountains, Give us men to match our plains: Men with empires in their purpose And new eras in their brains.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

Net - the biggest word in the language of business.

I'm tired of playing worn-out depressing ladies in frayed bathrobes. I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices, I'm going to be the most self-fulfilled lady on the block.

I do not choose to run for President in 1928.

If you would lift me you must be on a higher ground.

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? What's the alternative? What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.