Quotes About Ambition

George Eliot: "It is never too late to be what you might have been.

There are days when the younger self accuses you. Is this who you wanted to be? Is this the life you wanted to live? What had happened to the books she had dreamt of writing, the journeys she had planned to take, the person she had thought to become? What had happened to that quiet, stubborn, fierce girl who promised herself freedom and adventure and who thought she could do anything?

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

Villeneuve was little happier. Acutely aware of the need to redeem himself in the Emperor's eyes,

But Napoleon saw everything in military terms.

Nobody worked harder than Napoleon himself. Fifteen hours a day was quite normal for him.

It was everything Napoleon could have wished for, everything he had ever wanted,

Work occupied Napoleon entirely. He neither rested by day nor by night,

Google is neither God nor Satan, and if there are shadows in the Googleplex they're no more than the delusions of grandeur. What's disturbing about the company's founders is not their boyish desire to create an amazingly cool machine that will be able to outthink its creators, but the pinched conception of the human mind that gives rise to such a desire.

In the YouTube economy, everyone is free to play, but only a few reap the rewards.

Insull was a serious and driven young man. Born into a family of temperance crusaders, he spent his boyhood poring over books with titles like Lives of the Great Engineers and Self-Help.

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Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.

When you are having difficulties, a single attack of "Yeahbut maybe I should compromise a little for the sake of practicality" can bring an inglorious end to the fulfillment of your dream.

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

As I grow up, I want to keep having LB Scoots, and I would also like to start other companies

It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.

I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.