Quotes About Ambition

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

No man knows what he can do until he tries.

Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.

He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.

Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.

Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be.

Greed is but a word jealous men inflict upon the ambitious.

A BROKE MAN IS NOT A MAN WITHOUT A NICKLE, BUT A MAN WITHOUT A DREAM

I am a 21st century man. I don't believe in magic. I believe in sweat, tears, life and death.

A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.

The man don't make the vision; the vision makes the man.

Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is: What are you willing to trade for it?

Dream and deed are not as different as many think. All the deeds of men are dreams at first, and become dreams in the end.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

I intend to be the greatest golfer in the world, the finest film producer in Hollywood, the greatest pilot in the world, and the richest man in the world.

Challenge is what makes men. It will be the end when men stop looking for new challenges.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.

Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

For I have dipped my hands in muddied waters, and, withdrawing them, find 'tis better to be a commander than a common man!

The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.