Quotes about Ambition
Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?
— Jimmy Johnson
The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
— Anonymous
To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth.
— Anonymous
You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.
— Kevin Hart
He loves power. A terrible love.
— Euripides
He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
It eluded us then, but that's no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.
— F Scott Fitzgerald