Quotes About Ambition

He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them and know it, but do not dare confess it to themselves.

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna.

Where there's a will there's a way.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.

I wish I knew the good of wishing.

As you cannot do what you wish, you should wish what you can do.

Men never think their fortunes too great, nor their wit too little.

What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, "Yes, I've got dreams, of course, I've got dreams." Then they put the box away and bring it out once in a while to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in.

The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start.

Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.

Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes; work never begun.

Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction, the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel, that is, as a symbol of reward and recognition, in the last analysis, of acceptance by one's fellowmen.

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart, In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies, no longer tameless then, To mould a pin, or fabricate a nail!

Why, then, the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.

The youth gets together this material to build a bridge to the moon, or perchance, a palace or temple on earth, and at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.