Quotes About Ambition

Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.

Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon.

Initiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure.

They always tell me nobody's working as hard as you and even though I laugh it off man, it's probably true.

Men fear to lose as much as they hope to gain.

Men set themselves a goal, and having attained it, are satisfied and grow paunches. In their complacency they forget that their only future is now death.

A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.

Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't.

Boys go to Washington to be somebody...men go to do something.

Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.

But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys.

Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine.

In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.

Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.

When that man wants something, he'll stop at nothing to get it. And I also believed in the good of him.

I was that overachieving, annoying kid who was always trying to win some contest or win the role. I look back on it now and I'm like, "Chill, man." Calm down.

All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.

Men of action usually win - that is one of their distinctive features.