Quotes About Ambition

For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires:

I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.

have come to the conclusion that the greatest obstacle to getting what we really want in life is not the other party, as difficult as he or she can be. The biggest obstacle is actually ourselves. We get in our own way.

people have already wanted me to work

La diferencia entre una persona exitosa y los demás no la hace ni la fuerza ni el conocimiento, más bien la hace la voluntad de ganar. —Vince Lombardi

determination and will power. That's a good thing for a man to have. It goes a long way in his life. The American people have a lot of it. They have proved that, all down through history, but they could do with a lot more of it.

I've always figured that a man can do almost anything if he puts his mind to it and doesn't ever give up.

It gives them determination and will power. That's a good thing for a man to have. It goes a long way in his life. The American people have a lot of it. They have proved that, all down through history, but they could do with a lot more of it.

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing

Go therefore, and do that which is within you to do. Take no heed of gestures that beckon you aside. Ask of no man permission to perform.

Of course I'm an egoist. Where do you get if you aren't?

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.

Una nación que intente prosperar subiendo impuestos es como un hombre con los pies en un cubo tratando de levantarse tirando del asa.

It isn't where you're born in this world, it's what you do.

Others have risen before her, and with fewer talents, I'd swear. She has a certain elegance already. In a few years it will be hard to tell her from a woman of breeding." "And she came for nothing? I doubt it. To me she looks a dangerous woman.

This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors

The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits

There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success.

for ambition stirs imagination nearly as much as imagination excites ambition.

I have achieved a great deal to achieve nothing in the end.

Would you rise in the world? You must work while others amuse themselves. Are you desirous of a reputation for courage? You must risk your life. Would you be strong morally or physically? You must resist temptations. All this is paying in advance; that is prospective finance. Observe the other side of the picture; the bad things are paid for afterwards.

Their national psychology is such that the bigger the Idea the more wholeheartedly and obstinately do they throw themselves into making it a success. It is an admirable characteristic provided the Idea is good.