Quotes About Ambition

Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.

Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry the task you set for yourself to fulfillment.

I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.

Dreams aren't practical, but we can't live without them.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there

We'll show the world we are prosperous if we have to go broke to do it.

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there

I do think back,' Mom told me, 'on my wonderful headmistress at Brearly, the one who told us we could have everything we wanted.... And then, years later, I went back for a reunion, and I told the headmistress that I, indeed, managed to have it all--a husband, a career, three children--but that I was tired all the time, exhausted in fact. And she said, 'Oh, dear--did I forget to mention that you can, indeed, have it all, but you need a lot of help!

Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas, a young writer originally from Boston who was now living and teaching in New York. Man Gone Down is another big, ambitious novel—about race, the American Dream, fatherhood, money, and love.

The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

People believe when you're richer you'll be happier,' he said. 'When you focus on the goal you don't commit suicide. But what happens when you get there and it's not what you expect?

If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

Try to see yourself with power. Not power so that you can get even with anybody else. Power so that you can become even with your vision- Maya Angelo

Working behind the scenes to advance his candidacy, Hamilton seemed unfazed by the fact that virtually all other commissions were going to native New Yorkers of wealth and social position. Here was a bastard, a newcomer who had arrived as an orphaned immigrant little more than three years earlier. But he was a nova whose writing, speaking, and fighting talents had dazzled more timid men with better claims on command.

Wie niet helemaal bereikt wat hij bereiken wil, raakt niet los van de vraag, of hij niet beter elke moeite iets te bereiken zou kunnen opgeven, in plaats van te doen of iets anders bereiken hem kan troosten voor het feit dat hij niet bereikt heeft, wat hij oorspronkelijk wou.

Al die beurzen, prijzen en stipendia,' zei hij, 'ben je werkelijk zo naïef te denken dat die bij begaafde studenten terechtkomen? Trouwens, wat is een begaafde student? Een begaafde kontenlikker, als je het mij vraagt.