Quotes About Ambition

Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.

You become what you want to be, by consistently being what you want to become each day.

Repeatedly I have been impressed to learn that to reach a goal never before attained, one must do things never before done.

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

They thought man was a creature of rapacious self-interest, and yet they wanted him to be free- free, in essence, to contend, to engage in an umpired strife, to use property to get property.

Bosnia is a country," he said with a dry laugh, "where every boy grows up with the dream that someday he will own his own checkpoint.

God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in peace with endless worries of money, money, money? ("Disappearing Act")

seven million dollars

You were not cut out for a quiet life because you are honest to a fault. A man can want something to the point of indecency, he said, and when he attains his goal, it is ashes in his mouth and a bad conscience. The twentieth century did not look to be an age with any patience for the past.

That's the way people is who ain't goin' anyplace in life theirselves. They don't want you goin' anyplace either.

Dad, I would very much like to plunge off the edge of commonsense existence, at your expense, and become certifiably unemployable.

Do you run away or toward?

Feeling for the first time what it meant to kick open doors that kept closing, no matter how many legends had already passed through.

reporter once asked Rockefeller how much is enough. His answer: Just a little bit more. And that's all we want: to eat and sleep, to stay dry and be loved, and acquire just a little bit more.

what mankind must do to save itself is to launch an enterprise aimed at leaving the earth. On this task he thought the energies of mankind could be concentrated and the need for heroism could be satisfied.

That I was named to head the [Theoretical] division," Bethe comments, "was a severe blow to Teller, who had worked on the bomb project almost from the day of its inception and considered himself, quite rightly, as having seniority over everyone then at Los Alamos, including Oppenheimer.

For five hundred years, Christian teachers defined and redefined salvation almost entirely in individualistic terms, while well-disguised social evils—greed, pride, ambition, deceit, gluttony—moved to the highest levels of power and influence, even in our churches.

The denied sins that are really destroying the world are much more the sins that we often admire and fully accept in our public figures: pride, ambition, greed, gluttony, false witness, legitimated killing, vanity, et cetera. That is hard to deny.

Max would conclude, that's who I want to be. The pope. And I'll do the same thing he does. I'll keep all the goddamn money.

Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.