Quotes About Ambition

At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader of vision and genius which he believed himself to be, or whether he was no more than a tyrant with the courage and cunning of a pirate. For one beat of his pulse the lame rabbit's idea shone clearly before him. He grasped it and realized what it meant. The next, he had pushed it away from him.

The path you wish to take will be opposed and sometimes one of those opposers is yourself.

No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.

He was going to make this happen. His feet and his head was set, and when he got that way, he always did what he said he was going to do. It was his pride. The only one he had.

And there'd be no point: Why would he give his life over to this, if it were not for the notion that he could do something great?

I'd disagree with the characterisations of him as competitive (which I think was just misinterpretation of his ambition) or secretive (which I think is more about wanting to protect his team and his customers). Jeff [Bezos] could much more accurately be described as a naively optimistic geek than a calculating megalomaniac.

It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.

Whatever your goal is you will never succeed unless you let go of your fears and fly.

Success is more than luck. You have to believe in yourself and make it happen.

And once we decide to do something, we should never look back, never regret it.

Lo que importa no es necesariamente el tamaño del perro en la pelea, sino el tamaño de la pelea que lleva dentro el perro".

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure.

Big Mac started life selling paper cups. He was someone else who didn't believe in wasting time.

Simon's interest and love for life comes from arts, from music, books, his collection of paintings and beautiful cars. My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

To be successful you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running.

Dream Big. Play Big. Take Risks !! Keep working towards things that really matter. It is only by being bold that you get where you wanna get.

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

It was as simple as walking and as hard as walking on with so far gone and so far yet to go.

Jefferson could strike up the band even when he was being lazy or fearful.

He either fears his fate too much / Or his deserts are small / That puts it not unto the touch / To win or lose it all.

Her ambition was an extremely distressing condition. She sought power the way a superstitious man might look for a four-leaf clover.

O thou undaunted daughter of desires!

Why, on to the castle, to kill the royal family, and claim the throne that isn't mine by right!

Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.