Quotes About Ambition

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

Just think, that man can claim a slice of the sun.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.

I ain't no gangster. I'm a grown man trying to run a business.

A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.

On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.

I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of their masterpiece.

Each man does seek his own interest, but, unfortunately, not according to the dictates of reason.

There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

One of the greatest tasks of my life has been to teach the colored man he can be anything.

What is left of your dream? Just the words on your stone. A man who learned how to teach then forgot how to learn.

Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.

It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

The footprints of a free-minded man are always towards the forward direction.

I expect it is very possible that I would make as good a President as a great many men who are talked of for that position.

Whatever goal, man has reached is due to his originality plus his brutality

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.