Quotes About Ambition

We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like.

There is no top. You are never going to reach the top if you go for success. That way lies madness.

You need an immense amount of luck and perseverance to even be on the playing field for success on a grand scale.

The best part about using success as revenge means no 25 to life.

If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success.

The wretchedness of failure is the great attraction of success.

Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn't know what success felt like. I've carried that with me ever since.

Rather than just becoming embittered by your friends' success, I think it can motivate you.

It's unbelievable, it never gets too old. The biggest goal in my career is winning Grand Slams. I don't have a great record in finals, but I'm getting closer to .500, which is nice.

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

If a man achieves worldly success and does not blend into his life a program of self-improvement to bring about a sensible balance, he no doubt will end up as a failure.

There are a lot of dark sides to success, but the light side of it is the ability to be opportunistic, and to be able to do things.

My drive is other people's success.

I guess there are different ways to handle success. You can multiply it financially and use it to multiply your net worth. That's always been very appealing to me.

I never really felt secure until I was well into my 30s, because anytime I had success, I would invest in new projects.

People who don't make goals end up working for those who do.

The need for challenge, the need to burst through the constrictions of tasks and situations already seen and mastered, can affect anyone, even those enjoying the greatest gains from success.

The secret of success lies in this simple sentence: Why not?

Nothing is more diminishing than trying to control success or hold on to things.

I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.

It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.

I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.

in the very long run any success devours - and perhaps also corrupts.