Quotes about Ambition

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

After college, I knew I wanted to work in comedy, so the first thing I did was go to where the comedy was. I moved from Charlottesville to Chicago, because that's where The Second City and Improv Olympics are. You have to go wherever you need to go to study what interests you.

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit.