Quotes about Ambition
My gad, one of them, warrant officer pilot, captain and M. C. in turn said to me once; if you can treat a crate that way, why do you want to fly at all?
— William Faulkner
The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word 'success' - is our national disease.
— William James
the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess sucess is our national disease
— William James
how infinitely passionate a thing religion at its highest flights can be. Like love, like wrath, like hope, ambition, jealousy, like every other instinctive eagerness and impulse, it adds to life an enchantment which is not rationally or logically deducible from anything else.
— William James
We have to challenge ourselves and be innovative so as to change the world. Get to this level of thinking. No small dreams, do big things!
— Chris Oyakhilome
There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.
— Henry A. Wallace
There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.
— Henry A. Wallace
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
— Henry David Thoreau
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
— Henry David Thoreau
Live the life you've dreamed.
— Henry David Thoreau
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
— Henry David Thoreau
The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
— Henry David Thoreau