Quotes About Ambition

We all have tremendous potential, and we all have self-doubt. Courage can make the difference in leading a successful life.

If you cannot get control of yourself, do not try to get rich.

It is not being homeless that matters, my rich dad said. It's about who you are. Keep striving and you become somebody. Quit and you also become somebody ... but not the same person.

inspiring. I wanted out of the employee trap so badly that I worked even harder so I could invest more.

As a result, he is overqualified for the jobs he currently has

The richest people in the world build networks. Everyone else is trained to look for work.

All of us are greedy to some extent.

We were now looking for larger projects that were far beyond our comfort zone.

going beyond personal doubts, limitations, and complacency

The ambition of Caesar and of Napoleon pales before that which could not rest until it had seized the minds of men and controlled even their unborn thoughts

The ambition of Caesar and of Napoleon pales before that which could not rest until it had seized the minds of men and controlled even their unborn thoughts, said Mr. Wilde. You are speaking of the King in Yellow, I groaned, with a shudder. He is a king whom emperors have served. I am content to serve him, I replied.

I was, I remember, nineteen years old, wrote poems, still wore no proper collar, ran out in the rain and snow, always woke up early in the morning, read Lenau, considered an overcoat a superfluous item, received a monthly salary of one hundred twenty-five francs and didn't know what to do with all that money.

What honest man was never in his life without sustenance? And what human being has ever seen as the years pass his hopes, plans, and dreams completely undestroyed? Where is the soul whose longings and daring aspirations, whose sweet and lofty imaginings of happiness have been fulfilled without that soul's having had to deduct a discount?

At last I have drawn a firm line under the truly astounding great column of figures and am done with pursuing that for which I am not sufficiently intelligent.

I don't want to go running down some career path—supposedly such a grand enterprise. What's so grand about it: people acquiring crooked backs at an early age from stooping at undersized desks, wrinkled hands, pale faces, mutilated workday trousers, trembling legs, fat bellies, sour stomachs, bald spots upon their skulls, bitter, snappish, leathery, faded, insipid eyes, ravaged brows and the consciousness of having been conscientious fools. No thank you!

The gift that isn't big enough to make a mark, but is too big to leave the possessor in peace. And so they can't be content to be Sunday painters, or poets who write for a few friends, or composers whose handful of delicate little settings of Emily Dickinson can't find a singer. It's a special sort of hell.

What had Pledger-Brown said? Too bad, Davey; he wanted blood and all we could offer was guts.

I seemed to be the only person I knew without a plan that would put the world on its feet and wipe the tear from every eye.

You'll go far. How do I know? Because life is goosing you so hard you'll never stop climbing.

I think I'd rather get a job. Why? Why not? Jobs are for people who need them. You don't need one. You'd be taking it from somebody else who did.

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I come to call down my destiny - and it is tall and dangerous!

but she brooded not only about how to tackle her father, but also about what, precisely, she was setting out to do. Test the fire-repellent properties of her discovery. Toward killing dragons. Did she really want to kill dragons? Yes. Why? Pause. To be doing something. To be doing something better than anyone else was doing it.

she brooded not only about how to tackle her father, but also about what, precisely, she was setting out to do. Test the fire-repellent properties of her discovery. Toward killing dragons. Did she really want to kill dragons? Yes. Why? Pause. To be doing something. To be doing something better than anyone else was doing it. She