Quotes About Ambition

There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.

Big shots are just little shots that keep shooting.

Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Into the sky to win or die.

If you are not selfish you are wasting your life

I want to be known as a good bowler … My ambition is to dominate … What I'm always after is penetration,' he'd once remarked. Within a few short months his textbook technique, iron will and unshakable self-confidence had convinced even the most sceptical that his targets were well within his scope.

I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.

And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

I always admired and envied kids who did, who definitely wanted to be a doctor or who were going to go to West Point because their father was in the war, or if somebody wanted to fly, that that was something they definitely wanted to do. I thought that was great, because I didn't have any big desires or great ambitions for anything.

All men have limits. They learn what they are and they learn not to exceed them. I ignore mine.

The fear that lies at the heart. Only this can keep you from what is yours. Conquer the fear in your heart and you may have anything that you desire.

Egypt is our world today—different vocabulary, same issues. Egypt was organized on the basis of force, ambition, and pleasure, just like our culture today. Egypt persecuted the people of God and was overthrown by divine judgment, just as today's world is destined to be.

Don't get too disturbed when people say you have grown wings. You must realise you actually need those wings to fly.

Those that are afraid to take steps,never build storey buildings

You never know what motivates you.

I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves even in those books which they write in contempt of glory inscribe their names.

Nobody's going to hand you anything. You don't get what you don't go after.

But maybe it's better to go after something, and not get it, than to not even try.

But I don't want your throne." "Then what do you want?" "You.

He would find a way to make it work, because he finally understood that sometimes you have to raise your expectations. And sometimes you need to make a claim on the world and the people you love to get what you most desire

Politics is not about justice. It's about the settling of personal vendettas, under a thin veneer of civilization. All politics is personal.