Quotes About Ambition

Winners never quit, quitters never win

This new generation, they've been raised by their parents to assume they'll start at the top. No scut for them. They'll just sit in their parents' basement till the job offer for partner comes in.

Kind of guy who'd sell out his own mother to get ahead, that's for sure. Maybe he did.

Clearly Livia had mad skills. Which meant she also had a way out of her impoverished, drug-dealing, crime-ridden family life. Her education combined with her natural ability—the sky should've been the limit. So what went wrong? Why wasn't she still at school, perfecting more pumpkins and fidget doohickeys and manufacturing molds while preparing to launch the next great

go one of two ways—an underachieving drunk or an overachieving workaholic. Since

Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.

I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce. Tough. I was tough.

Aiming at giving our kids a competitive edge in a consumer society - that, in principle, is a goal that is limitless.

An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.

Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting.

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

I want to be a society vampire, you see.

The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

I believe in a free society, where aspiration and effort can make the difference in every life. Where your starting point is not your destiny and where your first chance is not your only chance.

We have a society that wants somebody to come out of college with a degree that will make them a slave for whatever discipline they're in.

Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.

People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

The ranks of society are once again filled with Ambitious Mamas, whose only aim is to see their Darling Daughters married off to Determined Bachelors

My immediate family was always very supportive. It was my own fear of the rest of the world not accepting me, the rest of our society not accepting my wish to be an actor.

Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims.

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.