Quotes About Ambition

I have found here a new world richer and greater than that of Vasco da Gama," he wrote.

And when Magellan

Magellan hoped that by going west, in the opposite direction, over water

Magellan believed that he could do what the Genoese navigator had claimed to do but had never actually accomplished:

reach the fabulous Indies by sailing westward across the ocean.

schooled in the royal tradition established by Prince Henry the Navigator. But he needed a sponsor.

The grant of lands, for instance, proved more generous than Magellan had any right to expect.

legitimately or not, he could sell it for enough to buy a small house; he could live off the proceeds

the rest of his life. An ordinary seaman might attain a modest degree of wealth

settle for what the crown granted them—still a fortune beyond imagining

Our ship of dreams must be anchored, or else it will float away!

If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

He must examine his objectives and see that true progress is achieved through moving forward to a better way of life, rather than upward to total life incompetence.

Employees in a hierarchy do not really object to incompetence (Peter's Paradox): they merely gossip about incompetence to mask their envy of employees who have Pull.

A leader is known as much by the quality of his enemies as the quantity of his friends, and Ted Kennedy's greatest enemy was the president of the United States. Nixon feared that the senator from Massachusetts might one day rise from the dark waters of Chappaquiddick to challenge him and his party. Nixon

With the chance I've been given, I'm gonna be driven as hell

Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Non est ad astra mollis e terris via. That's my philosophy. Its a quote from the past. "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

I want to make my mark,' he says. But what target, I wonder, are you going to hit?

You gotta dig deep to rise high.