Quotes about Ambition

It takes brains not to make money," Colonel Cargill wrote in one of the homiletic memoranda he regularly prepared for circulation over General Peckem's signature. "Any fool can make money these days and most of them do. But what about people with talent and brains? Name, for example, one poet who makes money.

kid I wanted apple cheeks someday, and I decided to work at it until I got them, and by God, I did work at it until I got them, and that's how I did it, with crab apples in my cheeks

Homer begged and Rembrandt went bankrupt. Aristotle, who had money for books, his school, and his museum, could not have bought this painting of himself. Rembrandt could not afford a Rembrandt.

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt...

Do what you don't want to do to get what you want to get.

Better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it.

In order to seize the day, make goals and go after them with all your heart.

Quitting is not an option for the confident woman. She must decide what she wants or needs to do and make up her mind that she will finish her course.

The word impossible is not in my dictionary. Napoleon Bonaparte

Years later I read a statement that said, "A tot of people have a wishbone, but they don't have a backbone." I thought, That's the truth. Wishing won't get us anything. We have got to dig in and do whatever we have to do to get

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. C. S. Lewis Would

Choose at least one thing you want to accomplish each day.