Quotes about Ambition

He was born sleepless without a talent for rest or the desire for it. --Cecelia Brady about Stahr

Well, there I was, 'way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn't care.

I don't understand why everyone fights for power, money, fame.

I just need to believe that we're not in some form of stasis, that we can try to be whoever we want to be. We probably won't get there, but we might get a little bit closer, you know?

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.

Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never short change yourself when you stretch your imagination.

Few women would prefer an unemployed and rudderless man to an ambitious and successful one, all other things being even roughly equal; and few men would choose an obese, unattractive, and dull woman over a shapely, beautiful, sharp one.

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

America is too great for small dreams.