Quotes About Ambition

Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.

Focus on your goals, not your fear.

A bad dream can ruin your night, but a dream not chased can ruin your life.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Talent or intelligence doesn't matter, Its your dreams that will decied how big a person you will become

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

Without goals the very concept of intelligence is meaningless

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.

We are not here in this world to drift like seaweed. Whatever intelligence we have, it is our duty to drive to the utmost.

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.

I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong.

Anybody with any ambition at all, or intelligence, has left Canada and is now living in New York.

Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp.

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

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

Fame is the penalty of success. Jealousy is the penalty of fame.

Quite often, ambition operates on a level of irritation. Not even jealousy, just irritation.

When you're ambitious, it's really hard to be supportive of other people. But it's our job to try, even though one gets jealous.

My whole thing is I like to hang around winners, I like winning spirits, I have zero tolerance for jealousy.

Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival.

Expect while reaching for the stars, people to whirl by with their dark clouds and storm upon you.

Nixon didn't mellow with his success, he became embittered by it.

To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talents, - the tools to him that can handle them.