Quotes About Ambition

Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.

I've got heaps of dreams.

Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.

Determination, perseverance and hard work make the impossible possible.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

I'm not perfect. I'm unfulfilled.

But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.

Greed, crowned emperor, rules the earth with cold disdain for harmony's path.

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal. -- from The Sexual Side of Spirituality

How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking! How often are the laurels worn by those who have had no share in earning them! But there is a future recompense of reward, to which the upright man looks, and which he will most assuredly obtain, provided he perseveres unto the end.

You have seen power in its various forms--a benign deity, when exercised in the suppression of fraud, injustice, and tyranny, but a demon, when united with unbounded ambition--a wide-wasting fury, who has destroyed her thousands. Not an age of the world but has produced characters, to which whole human hecatombs have been sacrificed.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

You know what is before you. The whips and scorpions, the thorns without roses, the dangers, anxieties, and weight of Empire.

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

If you want a place in the sun, you've got to expect a few blisters.

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and a large Garden.

This only grant me, that my means may lieToo low for envy, for contempt too high.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

They have seen in his [Senator Stephen A. Douglas's] round, jolly, fruitful face, post offices, land offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands. . . . Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.