Quotes About Ambition

Other kids would sneak out of the house to go to parties and do untoward things. I was sneaking out to do standup downtown. It paid off.

No one goes into standup to make money. The frustration and rejection are just too much.

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Better is the man of humble standing that works for himself than one who plays the great man but lacks bread.

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world.

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must.

The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.

Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.

Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea.

I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.

A man can't just sit around.

No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.

Work hard. Hard work is the best investment a man can make.

That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.

There's nothing a man can't do if the spirit's there.

A man with a dream of pleasure can go forth and conquer a crowd and three. With a new song's measure can trample a kingdom down.

Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.

We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.

While a man is racing he must hate himself and his competitors.

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.