Quotes About Ambition

Success has ruin'd many a man.

Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is likely, before long, to love the power for its own sake.

I wanted to play in the NBA, I wanted to play sports, I wanted to do all this. And I have. I think I am becoming a man.

The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten.

I've never considered myself a leading man, don't look like one, don't want to be one.

An unfulfilled life makes a hard man.

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.

Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25

There are a lot of wannabe men in Hollywood. But when you have that Hollywood mentality, there aren't a lot of real, grounded people.

Look well on this, my son," said the green-skinned man, "for one day I shall rule a clockwork kingdom of such beings, and you shall be its prince.

A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.

The man that created the theory of evolution by natural selection was thrown out by his Dad because he wanted him to be a doctor. GAWD, parents haven't changed much.

There was a little man, and he had a little soul; And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!

Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods.

The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

One of the most successful men I have known never carried a watch until he began to earn ten thousand dollars a year.

As a younger person I think I thought of myself as a Tony [from The Best Man], struggling with the legacy of my famous parents.

Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.

When I was a little girl - well, like, a teenager - I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone.

The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.

They say give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. But teach a man to fish and he'll get his own show on the Discovery Channel.

President Bush announced a billion dollar mission to the moon and Mars. He came up with a snappy new slogan - to drill where no man has drilled before.

The Elephant Man claimed his head was big because, it's so full of dreams. Actually, it's because his skull was shaped like a turkey.