Quotes About Ambition

Harry Truman proves that old adage that any man can become President of the United States.

The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

Man is busy desiring to find something which only he can do so that his ego acquires importance.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

This man has conquered the world! What have you done?" The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.

In any organization men would move up form the bottom to the top. That develops loyalty, ambition and talent, because there is a chance for promotion.

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

When I look at myself, I don't see the man I wanted to be.

Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: chart your course, set your sail, position your rudder, and proceed.

Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars.

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

Men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages: A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

Oh, the secret life of man and woman--dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.

On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.

Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.