Quotes About Ambition

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Lathi goli khayenge, phir bhi Bambai layenge

Blame me not for my failures, for thats natural, but surely do for my achievements thats I rarely stumble upon with no motive whatsoever to achieve!

there has never been a moment in one's life when one might not have stumbled upon this strange reality: what am I doing, where am I so hurriedly running, what is my objective, this whole world is a rat race and I'm going no where, with out any goal, isn't it?. this thought comes to me very often. alas! what to do, don't know what and where to knock the door and experience reality. no sooner that I try, I'm again fallen into the dismal depths of abyss, into the worldly affairs"

Playing God is actually the highest expression of human nature. The urges to improve ourselves, to master our environment, and to set our children on the best path possible have been the fundamental driving forces of all of human history. Without these urges to 'play God', the world as we know it wouldn't exist today.

Hard work guarantees you nothing. But laziness assures

People don't demand a say in how they're governed because they want to be rich. They demand it when they already are rich and crave something more.

But Delhi is a place where people generally assume – far more, say, than in Bangalore or Mumbai – that the world is programmed to deny them everything

You won't do this, my son! I won't have you waste your life. Musicians, artists, criminals, opium addicts ... You'll end up poor and disgraced. I won't have it!

You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

I know I've got to work twice as hard as everybody else because I've got twice the distance to run just to catch up.

HAVING ONE'S OWN shop, working on projects of one's own choosing, making enough money today so one could do the same tomorrow: These were the modest goals of Thomas Edison when he struck out on his own as full-time inventor and manufacturer. The grand goal was nothing other than enjoying the autonomy of entrepreneur and forestalling a return to the servitude of employee.

Old Demonology: '... And so forth. Not that success, for him, is sure, infallible But never has he been afraid to reach. His lesions are legion. But reaching is his rule.' - Gwendolyn Brooks

Would-be Machiavellis, some long dead before the Florentine statesman himself ever lived, anticipate the historian's enquiries by booby-trapping evidence, laying false trails, and liquidating artifacts. (This might have been what Napoleon had in mind when he blew off the nose of the Sphinx. Or was it Mohammed Sa'im al-Dahr who did it, in 1378 A.D.? No one really knows.)

To find a self-made man, you need a very narrow field of view.

No job is beneath you. You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom And when you get there, here's what you do: Be really great at sorting mail.

Its important to have specific dreams. Dream Big. Dream without fear.

If I work hard enough, there will be things I can do tomorrow that I can't do today.

And even though I did not reach the NFL, I sometimes think I got more from persuing that dream, and not accomplishing it, then I did from many of the ones I did accomplish.

If you want something bad enough, never give up (and take a boost when offered).

Walls aren't put in our life to stop us, they are there to test how much we really want somthing.

If you want something badly enough, do not give up!

Sometimes, all you have to do is ask, and it can lead to all your dreams coming true.