Quotes About Ambition

Let No Limitation be your Limitation.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

Let not ambition mock their useful toil,Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile,The short and simple annals of the poor.

But knowledge to their eyes her ample pageRich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll;Chill penury repress'd their noble rage,And froze the genial current of the soul.

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune,He had not the method of making a fortune.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown. Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own.

Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.... Some village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.

Let not Ambition mock their useful toil

I decided that there was perhaps no ash quite so cold as the one left by an unrealized ambition...

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!

In politics and in his personal life, Thomas Jefferson was a complicated man, but in one thing he was consistent: the wanted the best of everything, for himself and for his country.

One of the reasons that millionaires are economically successful is that they think differently.

If you have goals and procrastination, you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Offices are as acceptable here as elsewhere, and whenever a man has cast a longing eye on them, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

When a man has cast his longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Now that I was a novelist, I could not face the ignominy of failing to produce novels.