Quotes about Ambition

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.

If we're free to dare — and we are — if we're free to give — and we are — then we're free to shape the future and have within our grasp all that we dream the future will be.

There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.

Among the things he passed on to me were the belief that all men and women, regardless of their color or religion, are created equal and that individuals determine their own destiny; that is, it's largely their own ambition and hard work that determine their fate in life.

Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility

joy and refreshment in contemplating the great men who have found that precious stone for which they sell all, even their lives... proceeding on their chosen course without vacillating...absorbed in themselves and in working towards their higher goal.

when the ambitious man whose slogan is "Either Caesar or nothing" does not get to be Caesar, he despairs over it. But this also means something else: precisely because he did not get to be Caesar, he now cannot bear to be himself.

Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is.

A child's course in life should be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.