Ambition Quotes
It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed.
On some days it felt like we owned the Earth, and the only place left to expand to was the next planet down the line.
When ambition exceeds ability, you are going to experience hardship. We have the choice to fear it or embrace it.
Talent helps, but it won't take you as far as ambition.
I want my writing to bring people not just to think of "trees" as they mostly do now, but of each individual tree, and each kind of tree.
I told myself that I was going to live the rest of my life as if it were Saturday.
Emperor, king, general, duke, ” he whispered to himself. “These are just labels. Climb up the family tree of any of them high enough and you’ll find a commoner who dared to take a chance.
A day in a man’s life is constructed according to whether he accepts or rejects flashes of inspiration.
Cecil: “A cup of love is greater than a pitcher full of ambition.
Ambition had never troubled me, so I decided to begin by watching life at my leisure for a few years, waiting until I finally felt tempted to find some circle of influence for myself.
If you can't get everyone on your side, make sure they're right behind you.
Nippers was a whiskered, sallow, and, upon the whole, rather piratical-looking young man of about five and twenty. I always deemed him the victim of two evil powers — ambition and indigestion.
There is nothing in the world so enticing as that which you have been told you may not have.
Soldiers in foreign camps, so far from being missionaries for good, require missionaries themselves, more than the natives. Andrew Carnegie
The world’s deadliest mercenaries choose to serve you, the whispers say, because they have yet to meet me.
In Washington, the venerable were often vulnerable.
Ambition is the intellectual equivalent of body odour.
One of my objectives is learning more than is absolutely necessary.
Ambition is a noble passion which may legitimately take many forms
Great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance. What will your contribution be? How will history remember you?
Self-reliance and self-learning are your greatest assets.
Ambition is not everything.""No. Not everything, but it's something. Something important, if you ask me.
. . . I should wish you to think more deeply, to look further, and aim higher than you do.
Let me ask you this: How many days do you have left, if any, in the life you promised for yourself yesterday?
Ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put
