Quotes about Ambition

That's the genius of the capitalist system: Either you're rich, or you want to be, or you think you ought to be.

We weren't idealistic about much, we children of the 1950s, but we were certainly idealistic about art. We went into it with the highest kind of ambition — not to get rich or to impress women, but to make our mark as Proust and Joyce had made their mark.

If you stay intent and your ability warrants it, you will eventually reach the top of the mountain.

The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness

It's better to succeed against daunting odds than settle for a fantasy and get nowhere.

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'

Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list.

Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies lurking inside us.

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.