Quotes About Ambition

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

Keep flying higher, so that others are inspired to fly with you!

Those who achieved power were satisfied so long as they could merely retain it, and advertise it uncritically in the conventionally self-assertive manners.

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That's too much. You can't want all those things,' he said. 'Oh yes I can! And I'm the one to define what I can want,' I shouted furiously

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.

among a people hurried and busy and preoccupied, some in the pursuit of riches, some in the pursuit of pleasure, and some, the majority, in the struggle for existence, there arise in every generation, here and there, one or two great souls—men who

Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.!

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued.

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,As the swift seasons roll!Leave thy low-vaulted past!

This scenario, after all, was what he had always yearned for: immense popularity in a republican country, with no responsibility to go with

Poi coltivare un nuovo sogno e mettercela tutta per raggiungerlo. E spingersi oltre, sempre più lontano. Tutta la bellezza di questo mestiere consiste nell'andare a cogliere i propri sogni: fa' quello che ami e ama quello che fai. Non mettere alcun limite al tuo orizzonte, ma avvicinati passo dopo passo...

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

Opera producer Larry Kelly

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.

All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.