Quotes About Ambition

The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Everyone has got it in him, if he will only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities. There is no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective ... if you want it, if you will to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.

As an entrepreneur, I am often asked how I kept my perseverance. Well, persevere comes from the Latin roots purse, as in "money," and sever, as in "cut off." That's why I persevered.

Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on office, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

He knows nothing; he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor; to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by travelling west. There is no philosophy which will help a man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

Wouldst thou both eat they cake and have it?

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance.

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps till the legend, "over steep ways to the stars," fulfills itself.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

A great devotee of the gospel of getting on.

To spur a willing horse.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

When Babe Ruth was asked in 1930 how he felt about making more money that the President of the United States, he replied 'I had a better year than he (Herbert Hoover) did.' When Tom Snyder was asked in 1977 how he felt about making more money per year than President Carter, he replied, 'I have to go out and buy my own 707.'

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.