Quotes About Ambition

I always thought that they should make an epidural that works from the neck up, which was a condition I aspired to for most of what I laughingly refer to as my adult life.)

May I never wake up from the American dream.

All of us gave it all we've got, overcame a whole lot just being on the show and learned a lot about ourselves. We're just normal people trying to do what we love and follow our dreams.

If you hanker after accomplishment, you will aspect raw eggs and faultfinders.

1980's: not a time period but a state of mind.

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.

I hope 'The Voice' has a fifteen-year run, don't get me wrong. But I come from nothing, and maybe it's the Irish in me, but my attitude is always like, 'They'll figure me out soon.'

I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she did not know.

Look at the swell. You'll not find a bigger swell anywhere. It has half the globe for its run-up. You're young. You have the whole world. Don't bother yourself with the past.

Too many Negroes go into medicine and dentistry merely for selfish purposes, hoping thereby to increase their income and spend it in joyous living. They have the ambition to own fine automobiles, to dress handsomely, and to figure conspicuously in society. The practice of these professions among poor Negroes yields these results.

Oh, Jerry, don't ask for the moon. We have the stars.

Have the courage of your desire.

Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones, Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones.

I believe I am happy because I am not ambitious.

Lupin, like Mr. Huttle, has original and sometimes wonderful ideas; but it is those ideas that are so dangerous.  They make men extremely rich or extremely poor.  They make or break men.  I always feel people are happier who live a simple unsophisticated life.  I believe I am happy because I am not ambitious.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

The only way to get everything you want in life is to be very clever about what you want.

The fiercely competitive are fierce because they don't see themselves as competitive.

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

Man stole the fruit, but I must climb the tree.

who aimeth at the sky, Shoots higher than he that means a tree.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.