Quotes about Ambition
All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.
- Napoleon Hill
A wish is an attitude of mind to which wings have been attached. You wish and you dream, and your whole nature focuses to bring your wishes and dreams to pass.
- Norman Vincent Peale
A lion does not become king of the jungle hunting mice.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
A lion does not become king of the jungle hunting mice.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Any person can achieve greatness if they understand the philosophy of success and the steps required to achieve it.
- Andrew Carnegie
Politically, the goal of today's dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
- Ayn Rand
Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.
- Marcus Aurelius
Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
- Harry S. Truman
Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.
- John F. Kennedy
Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
- Albert Camus
I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times.
- John F. Kennedy