Quotes About Ambition

Some people try to be tall by cutting off the heads of others!

The germ of success in whatever you want to accomplish is in your will power.

You'll get your chance. One day. And when you do grab it with both hands.

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.

We had made the error of staying small – and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.

At the top the bridge with the stars shining above the harbor, I look to the north and wish again that there were two lives apportioned to every man and woman.

College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.

Take the local, take the express, don't get off till you reach success -- Sidney Rosen (Prince Of Tides)

The reading of great books has been a life-altering activity to me and, for better or worse, brought me singing and language-obsessed to that country where I make my living. Except for teaching, I've had no other ambition in life than to write books that mattered.

But you finally got to be a tiger, Caesar.

There's an old saying that anyone can make colonel on his own, but it takes a wife to make a general.

Hard work guarantees you nothing, but without it you don't stand a chance

There's no such things as coulda, shoulda, woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

If each of us would dream big dreams, approach life with hope and confidence, and persevere until our dreams come true, then we would not only be more like Walt, but we would become the people God created us to be.

Think beyond your lifetime, if you want to do something truly great. Make a fifty-year master plan. A fifty-year master plan will change how you look at the opportunities in the present." WALT DISNEY

Egotism is but the perversion of spiritual being. Ambition is the inversion of spiritual power. Passion is the distortion of love. The mortal is the limitation of the immortal. When these false images give place to true, then the spiritual man stands forth luminous, as the sun, when the clouds disperse. 4.

his unending ambition to find death and conquer it or become it, which, poets said later, became the same thing in the end.

I got a theory a person ought to do everything it's possible to do before he dies, and maybe die trying to do something that's really impossible.

And the hopelessness of herself, of ever being the person she wanted to be and of doing the things that person would do. Had all her life been nothing but a dream, and was this real?

I'm not melancholic,' she protested, but the thin ice was under her feet again, the uncertainties. or was it that she always wanted a little more than she had, no matter how much she had?

Then he said, "That's a long way from stage designing, isn't it." She nodded. "Quite a long way." She started to ask him if he intended to do any work pertaining to the atom bomb, but she didn't, because what would it matter if he did or didn't?

And she wondered, as she had often wondered before, if Richard liked her only because she was more sympathetic with his ambitions than anyone else he happened to know now, and because he felt her criticism was a help to him.

As Lord Tennyson so truly says: Put down the passions that make earth Hell! Down with ambition, avarice, pride, Jealousy, down! Cut off from the mind The bitter springs of anger and fear; Down too, down at your own fireside, With the evil tongue and the evil ear, For both are at war with mankind!

Let Charles Schwab say it in his own words: "The way to get things done," says Schwab, "is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money-getting way, but in the desire to excel.