Quotes About Ambition

Happy thou art not for what thou hast not still thou striv'est to get and what thou hast forget'est.

He is not poor that hath not much but he that craves much.

Not he who has little but he who wishes more is poor.

What strange perversity is it that induces a man to set his heart on doing those things which he has not succeeded in and makes him slight those in which his achievement has been respectable.

True contentment depends not upon what we have a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alexander.

A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.

No one is satisfied with his fortune or dissatisfied with his intellect.

I just wanted to find out where the boundaries were. So far I've found there aren't any. I just wanted to be stopped, and no one will stop me.

The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom.

America means opportunity, freedom, power.

More important than the HOW we achieve financial freedom, is the WHY. Find YOUR reasons why you want to be free and wealthy.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.

I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.

My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.

I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.

The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.

I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

I do think, you know, you don't have to have 30 billion, but you have a certain level of freedom.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.

Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?

The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends.