Quotes About Ambition

Yoksa ben sigaraya kendi yeteneksizliÄŸimin ay?b?n? yükleyebilmek için mi öylesine tutkundum? acaba sigara al??kanl???mdan vazgeçsem o umduÄŸum güçlü, üstün adam olur muydum? belki beni tiryakiliÄŸime zincirleyen de o kuÅŸku olmuÅŸtur, çünkü insan?n kendisini gizli kalm?? bir büyük adam sanmas? rahat bir yaÅŸam biçimidir.

It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent.

Certain of himself, confident of what he could make in his mind, going through life as if he had always a following wind.

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.

Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy.

Lazy and disorganized people never rise to true leadership. Many who aspire to leadership fail because they have never learned to follow.

Ja v?laties k??t bag?ts, jums j?dara tr?s lietas: agri j?ce?as, smagi j?str?d? un j?izdara v?rt?gs atkl?jums.

We plan, we toil, we suffer — in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.

Few men become who they want to be. Fewer still learn who that even is.

Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk.

I never got into politics for it to be a career.

I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.

I'm just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else's. I'm sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It's disgusting.

You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute.

In whatever it is that I do, I find myself drawn to infinite possibility, that sense of potential.

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.

They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, to shoot low and aspire not at all. They are always wrong. Follow your dreams. Make your wishes. Create the future. And above all, believe in yourself.

If you're going to have delusions, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones.

Our Lord never taught against the urge to high achievement, but He did expose and condemn unworthy motivation.

All Christians are called to develop God-given talents, to make the most of their lives, and to develop to the fullest their God-given gifts and capabilities. But Jesus taught that ambition that centers on the self is wrong.