Quotes About Ambition

Look for opportunity. You can't wait for it to knock on the door. ... You might not be home.

If you want to succeed in the world, you must make your own opportunities.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook be always cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

The successful man is one who had the chance and took it.

The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every opportunity that comes along.

Riding hard for glory.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality.

No one is content with his own lot.

None of us is ever satisfied with what we are.

Man's heart is never satisfied; the snake would swallow the elephant.

I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

I feel when people say 'bigger and better' they should say 'bigger and badder'.

The world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.