Quotes About Ambition

I want the flowers but not the work. Isn't that the way it is with many things in life—we want the results but have no desire to put in the work required?

In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As "fail".

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -- to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve but the will to labour.

Dream, O youth! Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets!

Success never needs an excuse.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

Make no small plans; they have no magic to stir men's souls. President Spencer W. Kimball

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

UNSUCCESSFULLY TRYING TO manage a life that

So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen.

Because it takes work, often a lot of work and sacrifice, you have to really want to bring something into being.

I remember once reading about Sylvia Plath. She was a young divorcee with two small children when she wrote some of her best poetry—at 4 or 5 A.M., before the kids woke. That's how much she wanted it.

How doth all that seeks to rise burn itself to nothing.

It is never easy being the one who takes the first step. But if we want things to mature in our life, we must fight for them relentlessly without compromise or excuse.

There's always time to launch your dreams

You can be what you dream.

Be prepared to go the extra mile; there is less competition there.

When are you going to stop thinking about things that don't matter and start thinking about what lies ahead for you?

In hindsight, it is tempting to dismiss every Fascist of this era as a thoroughly bad guy or a lunatic, but that is too easy, and by inducing complacency, also dangerous. Fascism is not an exception to humanity, but part of it. Even people who enlisted in such movements out of ambition, greed, or hatred likely were unaware of, or denied to themselves, their true motives.

There are two kinds of Fascists: those who give orders and those who take them. A popular base gives Fascism the legs it needs to march, the lungs it uses to proclaim, and the muscle it relies on to menace—but that's Fascism from the neck down. To create tyranny out of the fears and hopes of average people, money is required, and so, too, ambition and twisted ideas.

Were they humble? No. They were, in their own minds, human skyscrapers, fragrant with testosterone; backslapping, hand-crunching, sports-talking deal makers who spoke a language alien to me and, while swearing imaginatively at one another, often giggled like kids.

Existen dos tipos de fascistas: los que dan órdenes y los que las acatan. El apoyo popular da al fascismo las piernas que necesita para caminar, los pulmones de los que se sirve para gritar y la musculatura en la que descansa la amenaza que representa; pero eso en todo caso sería el fascismo de cuello para abajo. Si se quiere sembrar la tiranía sirviéndose de los miedos y esperanzas del ciudadano medio, se necesita dinero, ambición e ideas perversas.

If greatness is the objective, we are headed the wrong way.