Quotes About Ambition

Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime.

With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

I have been nothing ... but there is tomorrow.

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

The future is the most expensive luxury in the world.

Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you.

In America, any boy may become president, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too."

My mother said, "You won't amount to anything because you procrastinate." I said, "Just wait."

At home I am a nice guy, but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't go very far.

If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer.

What man can imagine he may one day achieve.

Our visions begin with our desires.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning.

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life.

It may be that those who do most, dream most.

It's our dreams that keep us going, that separate us from the beasts. I wouldn't even want to live if I thought it was all just eating and sleeping and taking off my clothes.

I glory more in the coming purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

Riches enlarge, rather than satisfy appetites.

I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind-hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

Riches certainly make themselves wings.