Quotes About Ambition

People kill for tenure at Steklov. How can you abandon it like that?' 'Everyone in Russia has tenure,' Lemuel observed crabbily. 'The problem is they have tenure in Russia.

An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.

only by suffering the rat-race in the arena can the heart learn to beat.

There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try.

Let your courage and determination be the vehicle that drives you, and takes you anywhere in this life you wanna go.

It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize.

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.

your business.

Robert Masello

When life gets scary and difficult, we tend to look for solutions in places where it is easy or at least familiar to do so, and not in the dark, uncomfortable places where real solutions might lie... Fear is normal, and a natural sign of ambition.

I had some time ago decided that the money-makers on the grand scale are monomaniacs and fanatics and self-willed.

I suppose I'm ambitious for something in spite of the fact that most things known as success don't inspire me to try for them at all.

The PROTAGONIST has a conscious desire.

Most people would rather live within their means than expand their means.

Just because they have a headstart on you does not mean you cannot win the race.

the "wants." I want to be free to travel the world and live in the lifestyle I love. I want to be young when I do this. I want to simply be free. I want control over my time and my life. I want money to work for me.

The pattern of get up, go to work, pay bills; get up, go to work, pay bills. People's lives are forever controlled by two emotions: fear and greed.

Just do what Colonel Sanders did." At the age of 66, he lost his business and began to live on his Social Security check. It wasn't enough. He went around the country selling his recipe for fried chicken. He was turned down 1,009 times before someone said yes. And he went on to become a multimillionaire at an age when most people are quitting. "He was a brave and tenacious man," rich dad said of Harlan Sanders.

It is a matter of going beyond the comfort of your current realities and into the realm of new possibilities for your life.

I'd rather be excited about making millions than worrying about not getting a raise.