Quotes About Ambition

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

I never thought of myself as a mogul, but it's really great to be in that position.

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good. Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

I'm one of those people who does a lot of things. I'm lucky. I get up and I have a lot of energy. I have a great work ethic.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

Who's gonna dare to be great?

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.

There's a great quote from Henry Kissinger, which I became aware of from reading [Joseph] Heller's Good As Gold. He said: 'Every great achievement was a dream before it became a reality.'

It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests.

My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.

I always had that desire to become a great athlete.

To have success, you can't let failure stop you. To have great success, you can't let success stop you.

If you are willing, great things are possible to you.

Barry Goldwater once said ruefully, and I know how he feels. "It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be President . . . except me."

In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die.

I'm nauseatingly pro-American. I would have come here from any country. The U.S. is where great things are possible.