Quotes About Ambition

You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it

Having navigated himself into unchallenged authority, he used it to turn a failing republic—as if it were a Virgilian vine—into an empire that flourishes

NON SUFFICIT ORBIS," a medal struck for Philip proclaimed in 1583, after he'd taken over Portugal and its overseas colonies: "The World Is Not Enough.

he started out with relatively little. He was born into the family of a respectable but forgettable Roman senator in 63 B.C.E.

At the top of the page is a photo of sunrise as seen from space, and in between are the words "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." Brand intended the photo as a way to describe living a life open to serendipity. As Jobs put it, "I have always wished that for myself.

Goals may give focus, but dreams give power.

we underestimate what we can achieve. So from the start, we need to avoid putting limitations on our expectations.

Here at last We shall be free; the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.

That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.

It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor.

Eddie waited 'til he finished high school, he went to Hollywood, got a tattoo.

People will urge you to go to school. They'll tell you an American education is useful. That is not true. That is 80's. You are here to hustle.

When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.

Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.

Being a first-round draft pick means nothing to me without my education.

Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself.

A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.

I wasnt using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

How was I gonna get an education, sitting right back of Bobby Ann Mason?

The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.

I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.

So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.

Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.

When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything like that, I came to NYU, and they took a chance on me and let me in.