Quotes About Ambition

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.

It looks to me like any man that wants to be President in times like these lacks something.

It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead.

Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.

Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.

Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.

The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.

We must dream so big that without the support that comes through favor with God and man, we could never accomplish what is in our hearts.

Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face.

I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.

I always wanted to play a big, black man, but that would cost too much make-up.

The moment a man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside.

Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.

Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

There is no end to the power a man can obtain.

Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.

The great man is always the man of mighty effort.

There is not a man in America who has not had a secret ambition to boot an infant.

A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.

Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.

You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business.