Quotes about Ambition

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

I'm crucified between the sky of what I intend to be and the earth of my performance.

Passion is born when you catch a glimpse of your true potential.

The world is evil only when you become its slave. The world has a lot to offer—just as Egypt did for the children of Jacob—as long as you don't feel bound to obey it. The great struggle facing you is not to leave the world, to reject your ambitions and aspirations, or to despise money, prestige, or success, but to claim your spiritual truth and to live in the world as someone who doesn't belong to it.

If you are on the right path, it will always be uphill.

Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave.

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into a reality.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated.

If we stay at home and mind our business, who will want railroads?