Quotes About Ambition

Siempre se dice que no hay que tratar de hacer más de lo que uno puede y que hay que estar seguros de lo que uno trata de conseguir, pero este principio, como tantos otros en la vida y en la guerra, tiene excepciones. Hay

Great Britain and the United States all one? Yes, I am all for that, and you mean me to run for President?

You cannot afford to indulge even for the shortest period of time in resting on your oars. You must continually drive the vast machine forward at its utmost speed. To lose momentum is not merely to stop, but to fall.

Girls can do anything these days.

I wished, first of all, to buy my way into people's good graces with my book so that, in subsequent personal contact, I would find the ground already prepared, and, I reasoned, if I succeeded in implanting in their soules a favorable image of me, this image would in turn shape me; and so, willy-nilly, I would become mature.

Since I've written quite a number of songs for my plays, I would like to be nominated for a Grammy

From Spanish conquistadores to the propagandists for the American Way of Life, the New World has been hymned as a potential paradise. The paradise that the Middle Ages had sought became secularized as the land of unlimited possibilities.

The only thing standing between me and greatness is me.

I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.

You'll find as you go through life that great depth and smoldering sensuality don't always win.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

It was either that or a sportswriter where I could document the poetry of athletics much the same as my idol, Jimmy Cannon.

He and his wife moved to England. He had always wanted to live in the Cotswolds and be a country squire.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve it through not dying.

They asked me my goal in life. I said, to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race and see if it could be mass-produced in plastic.

Don't look back, Satchel Paige said, something may be gaining on you.

If you want to have a future, don't do anything with no future in it.

Hero is he alone who vies with powers supreme!

What we desire, what we work for, or what we seek after, are those things that merely lead us along the paths of our lives.

Los tímidos somos capaces de cualquier cosa

there was something in me that would not rest until I fulfilled a grand destiny. Thus I created an empire in my thoughts long before I began to win an empire in reality. When

Success always calls for greater generosity—though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed.

Success Should Never Breed Complacency