Quotes About Ambition

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.

Anyone wishing to affect events must be opportunist to some extent. The real dis­tinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

The penalty for excessive ambition – what the Greeks called hubris – is exhaustion, while the price for resting on one's laurels is progressive insignificance and eventual decay.

Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.

You will go far in the Church." "I have no desire to go far. My only ambition is to be a good priest." "You will be that, of course. Nevertheless, you will go higher. And do you know why?" "Why?" "Because," said Orselli, "you are not afraid of worldliness. I do not mean that you are worldly. Far from it. But you have a talent for being all things to all men.

You don't have to twist my arm to work.

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

Keep walking. Hot night right now, right here. All you have is what you are. All you want is much too much. All you get is so much less. All you feel is nothing. All you see is darkness. All you know is senseless and all you can do about it is ride.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

I don't ask for much. I should ask for a lot, then maybe I might get some.

It is you who are the basket cases. For every moment you hated your job, cursed your wife and sold yourself to a dream that you didn't even conceive. For the times your soul screamed yes and you said no. For all of that. Your self torture.

A man drove himself insane He was driven Insane At least he was driven I don't know about you But it sure seems better Than just sitting around talking about it

For me, many albums are much more than a collection of songs. They're testaments to the courage to live above the minimum requirements of merely getting by.

There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.

Disregard females, acquire currency

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

There is a loftier ambition than to stand high in the world. It is to step down and lift mankind a little higher.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.