Quotes About Ambition

Against every great and noble endeavor stand a thousand mediocre minds.

Now he could go anywhere, associate with anybody, be anything he wanted to be.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

Strange, isn't it? To have dedicated one's life to a certain venture, neglecting other aspects of one's life, only to have that venture, in the end, amount to nothing at all, the products of one's labors ultimately forgotten?

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

Neatness was not one of the things he aimed at in life.

Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous.

If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

I have no ambition to change my nature, I merely intend to conquer my dislikes.

A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failedI well know. For its a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed --I well know. For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself.

Take flight each day! At least for a moment, however brief, as long as it is intense. Every day a "spiritual exercise,"…Leave ordinary time behind. Make an effort to rid yourself of your own passions… Become eternal by surpassing yourself. This inner effort is necessary, this ambition, just.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Thus captain and crew enjoyed a life style above their means, one they were anxious to perpetuate.

I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.

Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence.

Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage?

How often it is that an idea that seems bright bossed and gleaming in its clarity when examined in a church, or argued over with a friend in a frosty garden, becomes clouded and murk-stained when dragged out into the field of actual endeavor.