Quotes About Ambition

The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.

We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get our hands on it?

I want to be in 'Avatar'. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or Spider-Man.

You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.

There is nothing scarier than a mediocre man with a mission.

Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.

Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.

Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them.

Judge Thomas was a man who had used the system to get where he wanted to be, but then felt that everyone else should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man

A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's.

I believe that a man should be... as big as he feels it in him to be!

If a man can dream, if a man can have goals, he can be happy and he can be alive. If he has no goals he doesn't even have a future.

At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

I never had ambition to become president of the state or to accomplish more than men.

Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act.

One must have ambition and one must understand the minds ... of men.

A man can do anything he wants to do in this world, at least if he wants to do it badly enough.

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I hate to see a young man get ahead on the basis of a famous family name.

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.

No man can be satisfied with his attainment, although he may be satisfied with his circumstances.