Quotes About Ambition

He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off.

When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.

Helmut Lang is an amazing man - always striving, always moving forward.

I'm gonna go down in history as being one of the best music men and businessmen in entertainment ... The people that I'm going to be greater than are Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Clive Davis.

Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be

A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker.

Credit is a young man's capital.

It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.

Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future

Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.

I always wanted to be a leading man!

Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.

I don't know a man on this Earth who can outwork me.

Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious attempt to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try.

No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.

One man's fantasy is another man's job.

When a man loses his vision of the future he dies.

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price.