Quotes About Ambition

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in mind

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

It should seem as if there were a few green sunny spots in the desert of life, to which we are always hastening forward: we eye them wistfully in the distance, and care not what perils or suffering we endure, so that we arrive at them at last.

It was only one of a dozen or twenty vocations which he had taken up at various times, only to drop them again as soon as he made the discovery that they one and all entailed months and even years of hard work if he was ever to fulfil his ambitious desire of doing and being something great in the world.

This report inflamed my mind to such a degree that I could not rest by night or day for dreaming golden dreams, and considering how to get to that rich district, unknown to civilized men.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

Alice's message for today—in Wonderland and the world at large—is that young women can do anything they like.

What investment banking is to the ambitious and acquisitive today, the pepper trade was to the Romans—the most direct route to great riches.

economist Henri Truchy noted: We judged it better to content ourselves with the untroubled possession of the domestic market than to risk the hazards of the world market, and we built a solid fortress of tariffs. Within the boundaries of this limited, but assured market, the French live calmly, comfortably enough, and leaving to others the torment of great ambition, are no more than spectators in the struggles for economic supremacy.16

human phenomenon: our species' preference for "positively skewed outcomes"—ones with low-probability but enormous payoffs, even if the average of all payoffs is negative.

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you!!

You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.

Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice. Not something to wish for, but to attain

Live as if you already are what you wish to become.

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate.

I generally played a little fast and loose with my resources but I figured hell, a man's reach should exceed his grasp, especially in a stupid board game.