Quotes About Ambition

We risk all in being too greedy.

On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!

The greedy man is incontent with a whole world set before him.

Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying, "Wow, this is it. I guess I'm happy. I've got a home that I love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more at peace with myself." If there's something else to happiness, let me know. I'm ambitious for that, too.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

When I was young I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness. I was right.

Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other.

Some one once said to me, 'Reverend Schuller, I hope you live to see all your dreams fulfilled.' I replied, T hope not, because if I live and all my dreams are fulfilled, I'm dead.' It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

As I started to consider a career in music, I hoped for success, truthfully. I didn't imagine anything that would amass the level of the first record, but I hoped that I would be able to sustain a career.

A lot of people don't think I can play. It doesn't really bother me, truthfully. If anything, it just motivates me. It makes me work harder, makes me kind of have a chip on my shoulder.

No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles.

The only failure is not to try.

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

I'm a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.

You always put some goal in your mind and you try to reach it. If you don't reach it, that's fine because you at least had something to look forward to.

Don't try to squeeze into a glass slipper. Instead, shatter the glass ceiling.

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

I dream big. I think big. I try to go out and do it as big as I can.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, 'All right, well, I'd like to headline a tour,' and then when I get there, we'll see what my next goal is.

Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say.

I really just compete against myself. I look at my previous material and try to surpass what I've done.