Quotes About Ambition

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Learn to live in this world with self-respect. You should always cherish some ambition of doing something in this world. But remember that the age of selflessness has ended. A new epoch is set in. All things are now possible because of your being able to participate in the politics and legislature of your country.

The newer people, of this modern age, are more eager to amass than to realize.

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be. Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen.

An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are hopeful of achievement, resolute in avoidance, thinking that Mammon shall never put a bit in their mouths and get astride their backs, but rather that Mammon, if they have anything to.

Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars.

There's terrific merit in having no sense of humour, no sense of irony, practically no sense of anything at all. If you're born with these so-called defects you have a very good chance of getting to the top.

Nothing recedes like success.

He had ambitions, at one time, to become a sex maniac, but he failed his practical.

I dream for a living.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.