Quotes About Ambition

It's hard to want what we have; it's far easier to want everything in the world.

crushes are often just misplaced ambition

Your intricate love reminds me how great I want to be.

I've wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew up - and I wrote 'a famous singer!'

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. —Vince Lombardi

She said that my good qualities were my bad qualities -- this I have come to realize is true of everyone. On the one hand, I was game, eager and perfectly ready to see what was in front of me. On the other hand, I had no sense of direction or destiny.

Having children, helping people, making art, inventing anything, leading the way, tackling the world's problems, overcoming your own. I don't know. Not much of what I value in our lives is easy. But there's not much of it I'd trade for easy either, I don't think.

Women who live the life of their dreams don't get there by being dainty and darling. They demand what they want and they do what it takes to make it happen. That could mean breaking a few rules, a few hearts, and a few habits along the way, especially the habit of apologizing for who you are.

When I began to choreograph and find my way pulling other artists' dreams out and changing music in a visual way, there was still a part of me that had something more to say. There was still a desire to rock a stage and ultimately perform the eight count of my dream, but there was a lot of insecurity there.

The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.

bring in a magnificent income that would assure her

Money is the seal and stamp of success.

The bitch-goddess, Success, was trailed by thousands of gasping dogs with lolling tongues.

Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a man to make money. It's nothing you do. It's no trick you play. It's a sort of permanent accident of your own nature; once you start, you make money, and you go on ... But you've got to begin ... You've got to get in. You can do nothing if you are kept outside. You've got to beat your way in. Once you've done that, you can't help it!

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

I flew too near the sun and my wax wings fell off

Napoleon embodied a new way of fighting wars: a combination of individual genius and mass organization, and objectives far more ambitious than those of his predecessors.

man becomes a little cog in the machine, and, aware of this, his one preoccupation is to become a bigger cog. —Max Weber,

La pretensión de conseguir un poder relativo», apuntaba Timothy Crawford, «se relaciona más con la tarea de restar y dividir que con la de añadir y multiplicar».

Wilbur and Orville were rapacious misanthropes who were all too happy to stop progress in its tracks by stifling brilliant innovators, particularly Curtiss, all to stuff their pockets with more money than they could spend in ten lifetimes.

Today you live, child. Tomorrow, you dream.

I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of the small arguments.

Harper] once told a friend, "I think about strategy twenty-four hours a day," and it was only a small exaggeration.

If you don't know where you're going, you might not get there.