Quotes About Ambition

Some start in life without any leading objective at all; some with a low one; and some aim high—and just in proportion to the elevation at which they aim will be their progress and success.

Nearly every person you meet is aiming at a situation in which he will be exempted from the drudgery of laboring with his hands. We cannot all become "lords" and "gentlemen.

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.

Governor McCall desired to go to the United States Senate. There was some feeling that he should continue his gubernatorial task. But McCall understood Coolidge's ambition to be governor. McCall realized that Coolidge had not announced his gubernatorial candidacy out of deference to McCall. The governor apparently desired the excuse of opposition to retire gracefully as much as Coolidge desired to be governor.

Coolidge declared later that no one knew that McCall had told him to run and "some supposed I would run against him." But Coolidge was not of that stripe.

Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?

70. This affectation of a man's own excellency if it be exercised about good things that we have, it is called boasting: if about those things which we would seem to have, it is called arrogance: if about the fame and esteem which we seek with others, it is called vain glory: if about dignities, it is called ambition: if about the undertaking of matters, which are beyond our strength, it is called presumption.

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

If you can dream it, you can become it.

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

We humans are unhappy in large part because we are insatiable; after working hard to get what we want, we routinely lose interest in the object of our desire. Rather than feeling satisfied, we feel a bit bored, and in response to this boredom, we go on to form new, even grander desires.

Most of us are "living the dream" living, that is, the dream we once had for ourselves.

WHAT DO YOU WANT out of life?

Seneca reminds us how small our bodies are and poses this question: "Is it not madness and the wildest lunacy to desire so much when you can hold so little?

a grand goal in living is the first component of a philosophy of life.

humans are unhappy in large part because we are insatiable; after working hard to get what we want, we routinely lose interest in the object of our desire. Rather than feeling satisfied, we feel a bit bored, and in response to this boredom, we go on to form new, even grander desires.

Why do we care about what other people earn or own? Because we tend to regard life as an ongoing competition for social status. When

Success is very much like a drug: it makes you feel good; you don't know what you are missing until you experience it; once you experience it, you want more; and in your attempts to recapture that first high, you will have to resort to ever bigger "doses." And if success is like a drug, some drugs are like success: a cocaine high, I am told, very much resembles the rush of success.

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If you want something bad enough, you find a way to make it happen. - Seamus McKay

The essence of civilization is that men should come to be led more by hope and ambition and example and less by fear.

The strongest poison ever knownCame from Caesar's laurel crown.

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.