Quotes About Ambition

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.

When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism... Resist growing up!

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.

Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.

Golden roofs break men's rest.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime.

Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.

There is nothing impossible in all the world except that the heart of man is wanting in resolution.

The man who starts out going nowhere, generally gets there.

I am only one man with one heart...Call me a demon, call me a monster...but I can't be the strongest forever...!!! — Whitebeard's response to his status as the "Strongest Man in the World".

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

The center of every man's existence is a dream.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

No man can ever raise above that that which he aims.