Quotes About Ambition

It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?

Trying is not enough

Results and Roses The man who wants a garden fair, or small or very big, With flowers growing here and there, Must bend his back and dig. The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've got to work to gain. It matters not what goal you seek, It's secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.

Courage must come from the soul within; the man must furnish the will to win. So figure it out for yourself, my lad. You were born with all that the great have had.

Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.

The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

I want to be famous but unknown!

Success! Success! The enemy of progress!

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do.

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.

You can have whatever you want if you dress for it.

You can have anything you want if you dress for it.

You can do anything you want in life if you dress for it.

"Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones."

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Nothing less will content me, than whole America.

Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.