Quotes about Ambition

It is never too late to be what we might have been.

She accused him of having grandiose ideas and sloppy habits, a fatal combination for a writer.

No one gives you anything in life, Teresa would say, you have to take it by force, and as soon as you get careless they'll take it back.

To serve an ambassador who was despotic toward his subordinates and servile toward those of a higher social rank.

He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits.

It's when you begin to think about going to your dream that your dream is always outside of your comfort zone. It's always beyond what you've ever done.

In esse I am nothing; in posse I am everything.

The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing.

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

If you would lift me you must be on a higher ground.

Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself and, equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.