Quotes About Ambition

I love the challenge.

Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame.

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

As both the Mercury and Apollo programs have shown, our science and technology are so powerful that, if an intense effort is made, we can do almost anything we want in say, ten years - provided we are not in conflict with the laws of nature.

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving ... if your sights are set far above the merely secure and mediocre.

You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

When people say: she's got everything, I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.

All the discontented people I know are trying to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do.

We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?

Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. ... Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.

It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

May God ... let me strive for attainable things.

Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.

There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Conquer but never triumph.

Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.