Quotes About Ambition

It was apparent...that, all over America, thousands of people threw down a book or got up from a television show and said, 'I can write better than that!' It was amazing how many of them were wrong.

When I was three years old and in my mother's arms, she looked down at me and said, "Son, the way I'm taking care of you now, when you get old, always have a woman to take care of you like this." Dig this! All I'm goin' do is rest and dress, buy gasoline and lean. I'm goin' buy diamond rings and have the best of everything. I'm goin' pimp whores.

In his journals Emerson wrote, "To every reproach I know but one answer, namely, to go again to my work. 'But you neglect your relations.' Too true, then I will work the harder. 'But you have no genius.' Yes, then I will work the harder. 'But you have detached yourself from people: you must regain some positive relation.' Yes, I will work the harder.

Certainly, if the world ever is saved, it'll be by somebody young enough not to know that it can't be done.

Sure, sure," said Bugs Meany, pushing his way to the front. "I'll be so rich my little sister will have to quit piano lessons and take up playing the cash register!

I'm going, to make money out of the stars.

As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.

A man who never makes mistakes has long since ceased to do anything new. A man who is always making mistakes is a doomed man with swollen ambitions. But he who judiciously salts success with mistake is the rapid learner.

If you follow your passion, it will lead you to fulfillment.

It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you.

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

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

Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times.

If this is the only life, then why I'm not just doing everything I want to do.

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.

If you want to do amazing things with your life.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.

This fast life soon shatters, cause after all the lights and screams, nothing but my dreams matter.

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.