Quotes About Ambition

Great ends demand great means.

Once this person this counselor at school, this LADY, if you know what I mean, told me that if you kept your nose to the grindstone you could be someone in the world, and I thought, Yeah someone with a fucked up nose.

I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.

Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.

We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent — that it does not have to be recognized by others.

Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.

If you don't decide what your life is about, it defaults to what you spend your days doing.

It's not that I'm a Type?B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy.

We realize we can't have everything, and so begins the mad scramble to have everything else.

It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.

The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.

How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve it.

The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even.

If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.

Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.

There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them.

A film is born in my head. I try to make it, but I never succeed. What I want to do is impossible. It's beyond my capacity.

The greater the success, the closer it verges on failure.

Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want.

Inscribe all human effort with one word, Artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!

That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it. This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it.

Jove strikes the Titans down Not when they set about their mountain-piling But when another rock would crown the work.

Lofty designs must close in like effects.