Ambition Quotes

One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambitious, and he who is deficient in this respect unambitious; while he who observes the mean has no peculiar name.

The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.

When I was 15 years old I felt totally confident I would become a world champion and the greatest bodybuilder in the world. The same was true of show business - I knew that one day I would make more money than anyone else in the industry and I did. For that you need the willingness to work and do everything it takes to make the vision turn into reality.

What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have arranged in a certain manner; and it is not always out of courage or purity that men are brave, and women chaste.

The day shall not be up so soon as I,To try the fair adventure of tomorrow.

No man's pie is freedFrom his ambitious finger.

For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

It's not like I idolize this one guy Machiavelli. I idolize that type of thinking where you do whatever's gonna make you achieve your goal.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

I'm hungry for VMAs and Grammys. That's my main goal.

The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.

The United States of America has no intention of finishing second in space. This effort is expensive-but it pays its way for freedom and for America.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

I just have this thing inside me that wants to eat and conquer. Maybe it's egotistical, but I have it in me. I don't want to be a tycoon. I just want to conquer people and their souls.

I fight for perfection

If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.

It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.

With the proper training, I could've been an evil genius.

Be not afraid of greatness.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

I don’t want to say I’ll be back at the top of my game because everybody’s gonna think I’m crazy and it’s the old player not letting go sort of thing, but that’s what it’s gonna be.

We don't settle for anything less than excellence.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.

Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become injurious for the individual and for the community.

Pride went before, ambition follows him.

I grew up in New York wanting to be like those funny men in the movies and on the radio.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

It would be great to be 105 and still making films.

Lay plans as if we were to be immortal.

Choose a challenge instead of competence

A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.

I certainly won't have an empty life!

I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy, To share with me in glory any more: Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.

If you travel the earth, you will find it is largely divided into two classes of people-people who say 'I wonder why such and such is not done" and people who say "Now who is going to prevent me from doing that thing?"

We grow by our dreams.

It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones.

Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' the adage?

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.

Goals are like a magnet - they pull. And the stronger they are, the more purposeful they are, the bigger they are, the more unique they are, the stronger they pull.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I did summer stock in Miami Beach when I was 12, and finally I said, 'I gotta go to Broadway.'

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

The trouble with Democrats is that they all want to run for President

The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.

I swear again, I would not be a queenFor all the world.

High honors are sweet To a man's heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief.

If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.

I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps

Its not where your dreams take you, its where you take your dreams.

Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit;All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.

Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

Study your lessons, don't settle for less.

Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.