Quotes About Ambition

There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.

To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.

I am not a businessman. I am a business, man.

Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.

Most men employ the first part of life to make the other part miserable. [Fr., La plupart des hommes emploient la premiere part vie a rendre l'autre miserable.]

The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.

Man's restlessness makes him strive.

Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

They biggest man with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest man with the smallest mind-think big anyway.

Man hath weaved out a net, and this net throwne upon the Heavens, and now they are his own.

Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.

Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.

The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities.

Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.

Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.

I want to be on stage and perform and win Grammys and help out my family in Bulgaria, because they are struggling, and my mom and dad, too.

I would mimic what I saw in Grease and Guys and Dolls in front of my mom's mirror and I would practice voices and songs. When you put me alone in a room, that's what I would do.

Because my mom always told me that I could. From a very early age, I felt comfortable leading.