Quotes About Ambition

There is always room for the man of force.

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

As proud as I am of Doo-Wops I feel like, 'Oh, man. People haven't seen nothing. They don't even know what I'm about to do,' and that's what I can't wait to show the world.

Man, I've got a Rolls-Royce. Big house. Limo. All those things. This is why every kid's dream is to be a major-league ballplayer.

Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.

Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.

Hope is a working-man's dream.

It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.

Man is an animal whose dreams come true and kill him.

Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.

Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.

Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.

Man is the being whose project it is to be God.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn't mean I won't run.

To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.

Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.

We're all self-made men, but not very many of us have stayed on the job.

It is not man's dreams that fail him. It is the lack of know-how required to bring those dreams into actuality.

There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.

The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.

Show me a man or woman with a mission, and I'll show you somebody that's tougher to beat.