Quotes About Ambition

Towering genius disdains a beaten path... It sees no distinction in adding story to story... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it...

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition... I have no other so great as that of being truely esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any body wishes to hinder him.

Your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other

If my father's son can become President of these United States, then your father's son can become anything he wishes.

You can lose everything in life,but not dreams.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

The only way to predict the future is to create it.

I would just as soon die now, but I haven't done anything yet to be remembered by

if we never try, we shall never succeed.

October} 13th [1862] (To McClellan) ...if we never try, we shall never succeed.

No man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

Must is the word... You can not fail if you resolutely determine that you will not... Always bear in mind that your resolution to succeed is more important that any other thing.

Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freemen.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back." ?

She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.

it is easy to see how Stanley's painful poorhouse childhood may have fostered his cruel streak and the drive to place his mark on the world. The origin of the fiery passion for justice that fueled Morel is less evident. He

Henry Morton Stanley

As king of a small country with no public interest in colonies, he recognized that a colonial push of his own would require a strong humanitarian veneer. Curbing the slave trade, moral uplift, and the advancement of science were the aims he would talk about, not profits. In 1876, he began planning a step to establish his image as a philanthropist and advance his African ambitions: he would host a conference of explorers and geographers.

Of the riches Leopold hoped to find in the Congo, the one that gleamed most brightly in his imagination was ivory.

When ambition is exponentially greater than resource, said Prahalad, that's when real innovation happens.

Do you, like Agamemnon, attempt to dominate your world?

Everybodies always is wanting to make a clone for to doing their work. If you are not wanting to do your work, why would a clone of you want to do your work?