Ambition Quotes

What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development.

Joseph Morrell Dodge

If there is no wind, row.

Latin Proverb

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books what other men do not say in whole books

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

Albert Einstein

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Joseph Joubert

Nothing we achieve in this world is achieved alone. It is always achieved with others teaching us along the way.

Lee J. Colan, INSPIRE!

It's them as take advantage that get advantage I this world.

George Eliot

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

Horace

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

Eric Hoffer

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Oscar Wilde

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your v

Albert Einstein

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

Benjamin Franklin

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

Jean de la Bruyere

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

Thomas Otway

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

Lee Iacocca

Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson