Quotes About Ambition

I wanted the whole world or nothing.

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.

You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.

All I need is the opportunity,' I said confidently. He smiled. 'Seventeen's very young, and you look even younger.' I shrugged off-handedly. 'That's a question of make-up.' Karno laughed. That shrug, he told Sydney later, got me the job.

Power is like salt water; the more you drink, the thirstier you get.

Go to law school if you want to be a lawyer. If you want to party, go get an MBA. The Rat

I'm fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey that a man of similar ambition, of similar intelligence makes. What sort of concessions does a woman have to make? Does she have to work 20 percent harder than a man?

There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them.

The price of tuition for Self University is desire. Your degree is a better life.

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.

France cannot be France without greatness.

Everyone can get the gold of the Sun. (Tout le monde cueille l'or du soleil)

I want to be something so much worthier than the doll in the doll's house.

That's the state to live and die in!… R-r-rich!

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.

Any capitalist . . . who had made sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, always professed to wonder why the sixty thousand nearest Hands didn't each make sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, and more or less reproached them every one for not accomplishing the little feat. What I did you can do. Why don't you go and do it?

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat the possibilites as probabilities.

I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.

there was a little too much of the best intentions going on