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Quotes About Ambition

I'm set to have my best year ever: I'm hiring some acts and there will be a show in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. I'm going to use my theater to its fullest potential.
~ Mickey Gilley
Most of us would like to be smarter than we are, stronger than we are, richer than we are, but we don't feel all that comfortable with people who are.
~ Unknown
Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said "sure, every time".
~ Mickey Mantle
Living within means economically maybe wise, but not to have magnified vision of bigger objectives, maybe otherwise. Let not your vision for life goals be economized, look beyond, be larger than life and get MickeyMized.
~ Unknown
Roads never existed before man did, they were built. So blast the rocks and make the roads, frogs leap higher than the toads, let your goals be super super-sized, make your own roads or fly and MickeyMize
~ Unknown
Show me a man with a million dollars, and I'll show you a million guys trying to take it away from him.
~ Mickey Rooney
If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
No quieres entender que para ser algo en esta vida se necesita más labia que saber. ¿Qué ganas con estudiar? ¿Qué ganas con estudiar? ¡Nada!
~ Unknown
Basta con hacerse buenas cuñas y de nombre. El médico del Señor Presidente por aquí... El médico del Señor Presidente por allá... Y eso sí, ya ves; eso sí ya es ser algo...
~ Unknown
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing-stock.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Love not what you are, but what you may become.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness its opposite never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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~ Unknown
Para el que no tiene nada, la política es una tentación comprensible, porque es una manera de vivir con bastante facilidad
~ Miguel Delibes
Second, to have a good life, it is not enough to remove what is wrong from it. We also need a positive goal, otherwise why keep going?
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Goals justify the effort they demand at the outset, but later it is the effort that justifies the goal.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
By stretching skills, by reaching toward higher challenges, such a person becomes an increasingly extraordinary individual.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
When do we get to the interesting part—the tortured souls, the impossible dreams, the agony and the ecstasy of creation?
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
All too often those who extol most loudly the virtues of selflessness turn out to be motivated by greed and ambition.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi