Quotes About Ambition

We just might make a quarterback out of you yet, you skinny little son of a bitch.

Terry Ito had said Eddie Tang was on his way up. Maybe Eddie figured taking advantage of Mimi Warren and stealing the Hagakure were the keys to ascendancy.

Look forward, not back. Always move forward.

Lincoln had risen to this pinnacle through migration, self-education, and hard work.

we tend not to begrudge others their success or care how high the socioeconomic ladder is, assuming that everyone has an equal chance to climb it, given equal merit and energy.

If you've got fifty goals," the governor once lectured the Texas Education Agency, "you've got no goals.

Reality could be painful to acknowledge, but there came a point when we all realized we weren't going to walk on the moon, star in a Hollywood movie, or be president of the United States. We'd be who we were, and we could either come to grips with this fact and like the person we'd become, or live with regret and disappointment.

I think we got some work done, back at the start, because nobody knew us, nobody bothered us - and we had no money.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Thinking of it, and doing it… they're not the same.

I'm married to the future.

La ambición del corazón es pura. No compite con nadie y no hace daño a nadie. De hecho, le sirve a uno de tal manera que sirve a otros al mismo tiempo.

How many things would you attempt If you knew you could not fail

By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body— the wishbone.

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

Working faithfully 8 hours a day, you may eventually get to be the boss and work 12 hours a day.

The promising young poets, the hopefuls? I'd name Richard Wilbur, Peter Viereck, Karl Shapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Ciardi...Leonard Bacon...but it is still too early to assertions. They're all 'in the field.' It remains to be seen how many will cross the finish line.

He never got up high enough to see. That's why I don't advise your trying this side. He tried this side. I've always meant to go And look myself, but you know how it is: It doesn't seem so much to climb a mountain You've worked around the foot of all your life.

But no, I was out for stars; I would not come in. I meant not even if asked; And I hadn't been.

Out walking in the frozen swamp one gray day, I paused and said, 'I will turn back from here. No, I will go on farther—and we shall see.' The hard snow held me, save where now and then One foot went through. The view was all in lines Straight up and down of tall slim trees

And poems are all that matter. The utmost of ambition is to lodge a few poems where they will be hard to get rid of. –

Now Everybody has some secret goals in life...Sometimes you can get what you want and what you need at the sames time.

It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.