Quotes About Ambition

Devotion to duty is a fire that warms us but worldly ambition is a fire that consumes us.

You must be fully prepared to lose a great deal in order to make a great deal.

May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future

Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.

Big men become big by doing what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it.

Life is too short to settle for anything less than a 110 effort

Realists don't fulfill their ambitions. There must be a dreamer in all of us.

Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to.

The future belongs to those who dare.

The harder you work, the richer your company's boss gets only.

The only real failure in life is the failure to try.

There are two kinds of employees-those who do the work and those who take the credit. Get in the second group and rise rapidly to the rank of the president or director of the private organization.

We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.

Nobody rose in Packingtown by doing good work. You could lay that down for a rule—if you met a man who was rising in Packingtown, you met a knave. That man who had been sent to Jurgis' father by the boss, he would rise; the man who told tales and spied upon his fellows would rise; but the man who minded his own business and did his work—why, they would "speed him up" till they had worn him out, and then they would throw him into the gutter.

From the word go have an hustler course success doesn't need a PhD

From the word go have an hustler couse success doesn't need a PhD

There is nothing wrong in wanting money for purpose, however - perhaps to do some good in world - but be cautions about wanting riches for themselves

The saddest people are those who talk about the books they could have written, the garments they could have designed, or the pictures they could have painted - if only ... you do not have to be one of those people.

Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.

This is supposed to be my season to carve my own space if I play my cards right[...] Do I want it? I want so many things, so many competing things. I want to run to win, to run away from myself, to run away from home.

Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.

Kattoka poja! Mää olen lentokone.

Let not young souls be smothered out Before they do quaint deeds And fully flaunt their pride.

but get this straight: Absolutely nobody in the world gives a flying fuck. You want to be an actor? Fine. But never, ever bitch about it.' Advice I've heeded to this day.