Quotes About Ambition

I'm happy with my place in the firmament here. I like to produce movies and that's where I want to be.

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

It's every teenager's dream to be in a band, tour the world and be famous.

She had a formidable will, the will to live when she'd wanted to die, to rule when she'd only wanted to serve.

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Many a crown shines spotless nowThat yet was deeply sullied in the winning.

The curiosity to know things which are too high for us, which are beyond our horizon, which are unfathomable precisely because of the weakness which makes the future so obscure to us, has led men into many such ludicrous methods and errors.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

We live in a gap between what we know we should do and what we feel we can do.

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.

Everybody wants to be somebody nobody wants to grow.

Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components love, adventure, power and fame.

Niemand weiß eine Medaille am Rand anzufassen

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.

It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

Man errs as long as he strives.

One must be something to be able to do something.

What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

If you would create something, you must be something.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!