Quotes About Ambition

Listen, all I ask in the next life is to come back as a beautiful broad

I want to be a star

Do you want to be an actress too?' I wondered if she was mocking me. 'I don't know what I want to be,' I said. 'Well, what are you good at?' said Sarah.

Always seeking to do rather than to be. Do you really seek the counsel of the spirit?

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If you can find your North Star," he'd say, "you can find your whole universe.

Lo que ellos más ansían es aplastarme. Les interesa más derrotarme que el futuro de nuestra nación.

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

Never ask such a question!" Rhodes exploded. "Anything can be done if men of good principle determine that it shall be done. Have you the courage to strike for immortal goals?" In

And all were told repeatedly: "If the magnate is left free to accumulate his great wealth, you can be sure that some of it will sift down to you.

Ambition means wanting better for yourself and expecting more out of life and aligning your skills and work ethic to achieve it. Ambition means being proactive about what you do and how you are rewarded.

Boring work is generally delegated by creative people (for obvious reasons) and flows downhill to people uncreative enough to do it out of duty or necessity. Be really afraid of boring work! It says something about you and your propensity to take whatever is given. It's a sign of your missing ambition.

What I am proposing is that we be honest with ourselves and instead of stretching to be the dumbest person at the level above you, choose instead to be the smartest person at the level below you. You're guaranteed to get there and the effort is not large. Over ambition is a ticket to underachievement and in the case of the medical profession, it's downright selfish.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

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

And you, too, youthful reader, will realize the Vision (not the idle wish) of your heart, be it base or beautiful, or a mixture of both, for you will always gravitate toward that which you, secretly, most love.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

So you will be...  What you 'will' to be

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves;

The human will, that force unseen, The offspring of a deathless soul, Can hew a way to any goal, Though walls of granite intervene.

Aimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction.

So You will be what you will to be;

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it— Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. —Goethe

All things at last yield to the silent, irresistible, all conquering energy of purpose.