Quotes About Ambition

I'm not a leading man. I'm a character actor. That's what I want to be.

Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women.

I have no aspiration whatsoever to be the next great leading man.

I do believe in the value of ideas—and that eventually they get a man somewhere.

Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.

If you have sense enough to realize why flies gather around a restaurant, you should be able to appreciate why men run for office.

Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.

When you show a man what he wants he will move heaven and earth to get it.

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.

The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

Great times call for great men.

Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.

All great men are partially inspired.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

John Edwards is a tragic case of a man who ran for President when he should have joined the Secret Service.

A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

The central fire is desire, and all the powers of our being are given us to see, to fight for, and to win the object of our desire. Quench that fire and man turns to ashes.

The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.