Quotes About Ambition

I married up several times. And then across once or twice. And then beneath me. I never quite found the right level somehow. Perhaps I should have married diagonally or in a slightly curved direction.

The novel was written by Anshel Bronstein, the boy who had lived in the flat below him as a child. Of course, he remembered, he had wanted to be a writer. It seemed that his ambition had come true.

Wenn ein Mensch nachts in den Himmel schaut, heißt das noch lange nicht, dass er Astronom ist - Pavel

In the same week he would harass an Under-Secretary about horses from the Army, write voluminously to the press about a gun he had invented for potting aeroplanes, give a fancy-dress ball which he forgot to attend, and get in the semi-final of the racquets championship.

The hill, though high, I desire to ascend, The difficulty will not me offend; For Iperceive

Better to be impossible than measured in centimeters

At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds,"Yes, but I have something he will never have — enough.

Gunning for average is your best shot at finishing above average.

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.

A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential

Dreams don't work unless you do

A dream becomes a reality as a result of your actions, and your actions are controlled, to a large extent, by your habits.

A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.

Your attitude, more than your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Dreams often come one size too big so that we can grow into them.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.

Sometimes we are afraid because success puts pressure on us to continue to succeed.

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself." —Andrew Carnegie

If at First You Do Succeed, Try Something Harder

You must reject common thinking if you want to accomplish uncommon results.

greatest enemy to tomorrow's success is sometimes today's success.

A person who has a dream knows what he is willing to give up in order to go up.

Do you know the difference between leaders, followers, and losers? Leaders stretch with challenges. Followers struggle with challenges. Losers shrink from challenges.

If you know who you are, make the changes you must in order to learn and grow, and then give everything you've got to your dreams, you can achieve anything your heart desires.