Quotes About Ambition

I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water, and was prepared to give up everything in life, he could do it.

I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams.

A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.

Riches are a stronghold in the imagination of a rich man.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly at first, but in the end to conquer the whole of solar space.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.

But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.

Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.

That's how you become successful, man - you gotta stay busy.

All men of action are dreamers.

It's better to go out like a man, trying, than to play it safe and get second.

Dreams and actions are not so different as usually thought, as all actions of men are founded upon dreams, and their end - is a dream too.

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true.

Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Boys do what they can; men do what they want

To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.

The mighty hopes that make us men.