Quotes About Ambition

Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

Endowed with a clear intellect, warm in affection, and confiding in friendship, he was from the boyhood devoted heart and soul to the Prophet. Simple, quiet, and unambitious, when in after days he obtained the rule of half of the Moslem world, it was rather thrust upon him than sought

The game, the game: here we go again. All glory to it, all things I am and own because of Roller Ball Murder.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Todos seguían borrachos de proyectos con los reinos de caoba, de canela y de especias que todavía se escondían en las regiones inexploradas, y estaban dispuestos a macerar hasta el polvo a esos millones de criaturas sin nombre, con piel de barro y corazón de arcilla, que Dios había destinado para su servidumbre

Desde el momento en que Colón vio cruzar por el cielo esos pájaros desconocidos y Rodrigo de Triana gritó bajo la noche esa palabra, aquí toda la tierra es el mapa de una ambición: forcejear por las selvas es el oficio de los brazos enguantados de acero, y los que se apropiaron de la tierra de otros no vacilan jamás en verter sangre, por amiga que sea, para sostener ante Dios que la propiedad es sagrada

You can't lead bunny lives and write tiger poetry.

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

was born to be big. . . . And I ain't disappointing nobody.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.

There are two ways to get to the top of an oak tree: You can sit on an acorn and wait for it to grow, or you can climb the tree.

If you wish in this world to advance, Your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet. Or trust me, you haven't a chance.

I'm a journeyman actor, and I don't ever want to forget that. With romantic-lead dreams.

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

'Tis a common proof,That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;But when he once attains the upmost round,He then unto the ladder turns his back,Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degreesBy which he did ascend.

O Julius Caesar! thou art mighty yet!Thy spirit walks abroad, and turns our swordsIn our own proper entrails.

They fool me to the top of my bent.

Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would,"Like the poor cat i' the adage.

I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.

I'll queen it no inch further,But milk my ewes and weep.

I found you as a morsel, cold uponDead Caesar's trencher.

Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be untilGreat Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hillShall come against him.