Quotes About Ambition

The world's enduring lesson is that opportunities must be seized. Fail to act with resolution, and you are lost. All your dreams turn to dust.

Now a new era had dawned upon the world, which quivered with the impact of tremendous forces, of discoveries and inventions. Man rode upon the air, sent his voice across the seas, divided the indivisible, and penetrated the impenetrable. Audacious, optimistic, and indefatigable, he might even forget God altogether, and raise his limitless towers like altars to none other than himself.

Need is a weak word. has nothing to do with what people get. Ain't what you need that matters. It's what you do.

When I was fifteen or sixteen I carried around in the streets of Brooklyn a paperback copy of Plato's 'Republic', front cover facing outward. I had read only some of it and understood less, but I was excited by it and knew it was something wonderful. How much I wanted an older person to notice me carrying it and be impressed, to pat me on the shoulder and say... I didn't know what exactly. from: 'The Examined Life, Philosophical Meditations

RON: I just gotta finish my thesis. MUTHA WIT: What's a thesis? RON: It's a long paper I gotta write. MUTHA WIT: Then what you do after you don write it? RON: Then I gotta show it to a bunch of white folks. MUTHA WIT: Then what? RON: Hopefully I can get paid like one of them white folks. MUTHA WIT: Then what? RON: Then nutin. What you mean then what? Then I'm done. I git a job. I live, become fabulously rich and mildly famous. MUTHA WIT: Then what? RON: Then I drop dead I guess I don't know.

Confidence is like going after Moby Dick with a rowboat, a harpoon and a jar of tartar sauce.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

I haven't really decided to be an actor yet! I started doing plays when I was about 15 or 16. I only did it because my dad saw a bunch of pretty girls in a restaurant and he asked them where they came from and they said drama group. He said, 'Son, that is where you need to go.'

There is no moral reason for government at any level to prevent the children of engaged and invested Americans of any race, ethnic group, or income level from reaping the full rewards of their talents and ambitions, nor interfering with parents' best efforts to do what they deem best for their children.

If you've never experienced the misery of failure, the chances are pretty good that you haven't tried very hard to succeed. I've never met anyone who has made it to the top—and managed to stay there—who didn't first taste the bitterness of defeat, usually many defeats.

All your dreams can come true. It s not easy but not impossible either.

I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.

What would you do if you knew you could not fail.

Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never short change yourself when you stretch your imagination.

By means of industry and perseverance you will rise higher and higher.

Most men lead lives of quiet aspiration.

In every man's life there is something he feels driven to do, something that pricks him at the core of his soul so long as it remains undone, and yet as he approaches the doing of it he will know fear, for perhaps to fulfill the obsession will bring him more pain than pleasure.

It's like the end of the day where you feel nothing has been achieved and you're in a hurry to get the day over with so you can start the next one. You tell yourself you're going to do lots of positive things. But the next day is just like the one before. Sometimes it goes on for weeks.

If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.

Don't be afraid to ask for a rise, Sagittarius. Your boss always pay you less than your work is actually worth!

You're only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You've done something.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.

romantic ambitions, there wasn't even such a place for her