Quotes About Ambition

Ter que pagar pelos próprios sonhos deve ser o pior dos desesperos.

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction; where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself but undoubting about the truth. This has been exactly reversed … We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.5

But you just watch, little girl. I'm goin' to show 'em. In five years they'll come crawlin' to me on their bellies. I don't know what it is, but I got a kind of feel for the big money.

Take a plunge, take a plunge . . . they're all crooks and gamblers anyway . . . take a plunge and come up with your hands full, pockets full, bankaccount full, vaults full of money. If I only dared take the risk. Fool to waste your time fuming about it.

Why the hell does everybody want to succeed? I'd like to meet somebody who wanted to fail. That's the only sublime thing.

And don't forget this, if a man's a success in New York, he's a success!

Oh I know darling, it's nothing but money in New York.

But wilde Ambition loves to slide, not stand; And Fortunes Ice prefers to Vertues Land

What cannot Praise effect in Mighty Minds, When Flattery Sooths, and when Ambition Blinds!

If you had permission to do what you really want to do, what would you do?

A boy wants to attack something—and so does a man, even if it's only a little white ball on a tee. He wants to whack it into kingdom come.

Now every daughter of Eve want to control her surrounding, her relationships, her God. No longer is she vulnerable; now she will be grasping. No longer does she want simply to share in the adventure; she wants to control it.

the ability to hope and dream.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.

Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. [Quoted by Theodore Sorensen in 'Kennedy']

Just because we cannot see clearly te end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded -- your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes have that feeling myself. [ Speech at CIA Headquarters , November 28, 1961]

I mean, they are just as susceptible to pressure and in many ways more susceptible to pressure because they are desperately anxious, this is their tremendous chance to break through the rather narrow lives they may lead.

We have come too far, we have sacrificed too much, to disdain future now.

I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.

we will do this not because it is easy, but because it is hard ...