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Quotes About Ambition

Don't dwell on reality it will only keep you from greatness.
~ Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.
Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success.
~ Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.
In Hollywood, between enthusiasm and money lies the Sahara Desert.
~ Rex Pickett
Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious effort to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try." -- Nero Wolf in Death of a Dude.
~ Rex Stout
No, Mr. Vardas, I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is an hysterical paroxysm of his infantile vanity. One of the prime ambitions of a jackass is to bray louder than any other jackass, and man is not Ã¢â'¬Â¦
~ Rex Stout
He's the kind that lets out all his sail and then puffs to make his own wind.
~ Rex Stout
You might have thought we were bound for the stratosphere to shine up the moon and pick wild stars.
~ Rex Stout
Obstacles don't decide the fate of your dream, you do
~ Rhonda Britten
Decide what you want. Believe you can have it. Believe you deserve it. Believe it's possible for you.
~ Rhonda Byrne
If you do just a little research, it is going to become evident to you that anyone that ever accomplished anything, did not know how they were going to do it. They only knew they were going to do it.
~ Rhonda Byrne
Focus only on your dreams, visions, and take all competition all of the equation
~ Rhonda Byrne
Focus only on your dreams, visions, and take all competition out of the equation
~ Rhonda Byrne
Decide what you want to be, do, and have, think the thoughts of it
~ Rhonda Byrne
Why must I still see myself in competition with him? I wondered. Shouldn't I be content to be a wife and mother?
~ Rhys Bowen
The new century is coming. Young women should have a chance to make something of themselves. Heaven knows that most of the cooks in the great houses around the country are women. It's a natural art for us females.
~ Rhys Bowen
My father is the son of a vicar and rose to become a judge. My mother is solidly middle class. Her father was a bank manager. But she has grand ideas. She was set on my marrying a title.
~ Rhys Bowen
Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy." —Lazarus Long
~ Ric Edelman
to be the man you have to beat the man and im the man
~ Ric Flair
to be the man, you gotta beat the man, WOO!
~ Ric Flair
To be the man, you gotta beat the man.
~ Ric Flair
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.
~ Riccardo Muti
he wanted to win. And would do whatever it took. Here was a self-made man, filled with the most dangerous kind of confidence: he had done it before and believed he could do it again. This gave him the air of a berserker, who says, If you're going to fight me, you better kill me.
~ Rich Cohen
Show me a happy man and I will show you a man who is getting nothing accomplished in this world. Ripe
~ Rich Cohen
Love one another, forgive one another, work as unto God, let the peace of Christ reign in your hearts. Make it your ambition to lead quiet lives. Obey. Greet one another with a holy kiss. No one will argue with that.
~ Rich Mullins