Quotes About Ambition

Refuse to allow yourself to have low expectations about what you're capable of creating. As Michelangelo suggested, the greater danger is not that your hopes are too high and you fail to reach them; it's that they're too low and you do.

I've never thought about Who I want to be. The question has always been What do you want to be?

We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from. We have debased the products of work and have been, in turn, debased by them. (pg. 43, The Unsettling of America)

I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.

From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of genius and war, from the union of outer space and inner vacuity, the Mad Farmer walks quietly away.

The growth of the exploiters' revolution on this continent has been accompanied by the growth of the idea that work is beneath human dignity, particularly any form of hand work. We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

The Kansas state motto, "Ad astra per aspera" - To the stars through difficulties.

Garden City: Dreams in a Kansas Town

The Apocalypse would definitely put a crimp in my career plans.

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished.

No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

Contented with little yet wishing for more

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.

Every fool aspired to be a knave.

Life at seventeen seemed so clear.