Quotes About Ambition

I'm sure he doesn't see it as aimless. We all have different goals. His are achievable.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody ( Joseph Heller, Catch

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Why does crime, even when as powerful as Cæsar, and assured of being beyond punishment, strive always for the appearances of truth, justice, and virtue? Why does it take the trouble?

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Los grandes resultados requieren grandes ambiciones" (Heráclito)

For the best men choose one thing above all—immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle.

You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.

We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.

I honestly believe that there's an element in this country, in our politics, that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the Republican party, and does not want me to succeed at becoming President of the United States of America.

the possibility of success was motivating me more than the fear of failure.

[On Hollywood:] There are millions to be grabbed out here, and your only competition is idiots. Don't let this get around.

For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness.

If you don't create new opportunities within the confines of your "day job," they may never come your way.

One way or the other, she had no doubt she would succeed in influencing her husband and obtaining the independence she so longed for.

There is a better world," a man said. "But it's more expensive.

Whatever the past may have handed on to us, it is up to each one of us to chisel our present out of the shapeless block of the future.

But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods.

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

It is best to work, at whatever you have a talent for doing, without turning your greedy thought toward what some other man possesses, but take care of your own livelihood, as I advise you.

I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.

The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.