Quotes About Ambition

I'm on top of the world, man. And I intend to stay there.

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

Vions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be.

I saw a man pursuing the horizon

When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

At the risk bragging, one of the things I'm best at is riding coattails. Behind every successful man is me, smiling and taking partial credit.

Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, that is immortal.

Courage must come from the soul within; the man must furnish the will to win. So figure it out for yourself, my lad. You were born with all that the great have had.

Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.

Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.

A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.

A man must know his destiny.

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.

In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.

I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps.

A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.