Quotes About Ambition

I want to be the man. I want to do what it takes to win.

Donald Trump's big goal is to become the richest man in the world, abusing the powers of the presidency.

Virtually nothing can stop a man who has a goal clearly in sight.

The man I want to be could easily beat me up.

Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.

Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.

Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.

I do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He's the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor's wife right now.

God alone is satisfied with what He is and can proclaim: "I am what I am." Unlike God, man strives with all his might to be what he is not. He incessantly proclaims: "I am what I am not.

The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.

It would not be better if men got what they wanted.

I didn't get where I am today by being timid, young man.

Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

In all of my movies I've tried to address the need for man - not just Cubans - to have a dream and to fight for that dream, even when he doesn't achieve it. It's a form of happiness.

Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high.

A man often believes himself leader when he is led; as his mind endeavors to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards another.

No man should have a political office because he wants a job.

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.