Quotes About Ambition

A newspaper man wrote an article that I had 300 million dollars, well, I wish I had a million dollars

Most men I know, pissed away their fortunes. I'm the only one I know, that made a fortune pissin'

As for a limit to one's labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.

Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

A woman has just as much right in this world as a man and can get along in it just as well if she puts her mind to it.

The Complex of color...every colored man feels it sooner or later. It gets in the way of his dreams, of his education, of his marriage, of the rearing of his children.

Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure.

Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.

One great cause of failure of young men in business is lack of concentration.

Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, 'Wonderful. Just have a back-up profession like welding.'

Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.

Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

I will lead mankind into a new world! You cannot kill me! No man can murder me!

With gold a man can do anything. It even sends souls to paradise.

Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.

I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn't have that kinda money to put out.

The only reason men fail is because of broken focus