Quotes About Ambition

Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.

People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.

Man, I think the sky is the limit for this team.

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

The world is waiting for men with vision - it is not interested in mere pictures.

I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, 'Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.'

Dreams are what keep a man going.

The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.

A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect?

I do not choose to be a common man.

I didn't want to be the crippled songwriter or the crippled singer. I wanted to be the singer or the songwriter who was crippled. I wanted to be larger than life and a man among men.

An artist, a man, a failure, must proceed.

There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.

When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.

If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment.

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.

That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

I feel that I am a man of destiny.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.