Quotes About Ambition

I like ambition. I like someone who gets up in the morning and has a purpose. A real purpose. I have one. I want whoever I love to have one. I always look forward to breakfast.

Every man in a big position knows in his own heart that forces entirely outside himself have played a large part in his making." —Bruce Barton, 1928   "Many

Don't just accept whatever comes your way in life. You were born to win; you were born for greatness; you were created to be a champion in life.

il filosofo è tanto più bestia quanto più vuol esser dio

if you take big steps and climb with all your little might!

When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.

It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.

No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.

Why have I not genius to start some new thought? Some thing that will surprise the world?

A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.

Some day we will try To do as many things as are possible And perhaps we shall succeed at a handful Of them, but this will not have anything To do with what is promised today, our Landscape sweeping out from us to disappear On the horizon.

This was our ambition: to be small and clear and free. Alas, the summer's energy wanes quickly, A moment and it is gone. And no longer May we make the necessary arrangements, simple as they are. Our star was brighter perhaps when it had water in it.

Did you ever think, maybe you're not too big? Maybe this town's just too small? - Big Fish

As the two women sobbed, Lovat felt a real hatred for the men behind this. Not just Johnson's killers, but everyone involved in the whole bloody mess. Stinking politicians and army officers who had the world at their feet but were never satisfied. Men who couldn't let their ambitions rest, but always wanted more.

I was always a distinct no-one, whose fiercest wish was to be an indistinct someone.

If that child dreaming by the wireless had been asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, what I had become was more or less what he would have described, in however halting a fashion, I am sure of it. This is remarkable, I think, even allowing for my present sorrows. Are not the majority of men disappointed with their lot, languishing in quiet desperation in their chains?

Siempre fui un nadie bien definido cuya mayor ansia fue ser un alguien indefinido.

The true workers all die in a fidget of frustration. So much to do, and so much left undone.

I am well aware of what I expected, what I expect, of my daughter, and of the selfishness and pathos of that expectation. Much is demanded of the dilettante's offspring. She will do what I could not, and be a great scholar, if I have any say in the matter, and I have.

In sum I'm not what either parent or I had in mind. One hoped I'd be astonishing, forceful, triumphant—heroical in other words. One dead. I myself conventional. I turn out I.

THE DREAM BECOMES A NIGHTMARE

Do not be afraid to fail. Be afraid to accept that who you are right now is all you are going to be.

I've spent so much time pushing the boat out that I forgot to jump on and now it's out beyond the harbour on the high seas, but it's very nice to look at.