Quotes About Ambition

Nothing's far when one wants to get there.

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Winners are men who have dedicated their whole lives to winning.

Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.

Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination.

Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

This one thing I do ... I press toward the mark.

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.

Prosper Jolyot de Crebillion

No great thing conies to any man unless he has courage.

There are a lot of fellas with all the ability it takes to play in the major leagues, but... they always get stuck in the minor leagues because they haven't got the guts to make the climb.

You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hardworking. ... Do not fear to pioneer, to venture down new paths of endeavor.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour, and survival a thing not beyond the bounds of possibility.

Hood an ass with reverend purple. So you can hide his two ambitious ears, and he shall pass for a cathedral doctor.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

I was born to other things.

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. There is no philosophy which will help a man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure. 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.

There is only one big thing-desire. And before it, when it is big, all is little.

Energy is equal to desire and purpose.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.

Enthusiasm for one's goal to lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.

Let a man in a garret burn with enough intensity, and he will set fire to the world.