Quotes About Ambition

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.

Anything in life worth having is worth working for!

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb a little.

Alexander was no longer so much the master of his lust, having been fawned upon by Fortune, whom mortal men too little distrust.

Very few people go into politics to be reviled.

All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them.

Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.

Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver, and the idea of leaving behind an everlasting legacy can spur even the most cautious person to proceed recklessly.

It is the rare young writer who does not fall in love with the idea of becoming famous, and Melville was no exception. When he remarked years later to Hawthorne that no man "who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows," he was reproving his younger self for having craved it.

I was a writer, after all. Shouldn't I have a book?

Get rich. Live life to the fullest. Destroy the world.

Alguien me dijo que hay una sola cosa que no pueden quitarte aquí... Tus sueños.

To thrive in an ever-globalizing world, you must do what others do not do and go where others will not go.

We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals. —Quarry worker's creed

We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals.

The marriage of military metaphysics with eschatological ambition is a misbegotten one, contrary to the long-term interests of either the American people or the world beyond our borders.

Worldly ambition inhibits true learning. Ask me. I know. A young man in a hurry is nearly uneducable: He knows what he wants and where he's headed; when it comes to looking back or entertaining heretical thoughts, he has neither the time nor the inclination. All that counts is that he is going somewhere. Only as ambition wanes does education become a possibility.

Growing up, I was always that kid that kinda watched All-Star Weekend on TV, every event.

Every weekend I would take a train to Delhi and sneak into startup events. I really enjoyed meeting entrepreneurs who were solving big problems. They were way smarter than me. I knew this is where I had to be.

I want to be an All-Star and never had the opportunity. There's no animosity toward it or anything. I still enjoy everything that the NBA does, genuinely, with the All-Star weekend.