Quotes about Ambition
Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amout of hard work that is put into it.
- Calvin Coolidge
A great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On.
- George Bernard Shaw
A great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is never too late to be what we might have been.
- George Eliot
She accused him of having grandiose ideas and sloppy habits, a fatal combination for a writer.
- Isabel Allende
No one gives you anything in life, Teresa would say, you have to take it by force, and as soon as you get careless they'll take it back.
- Isabel Allende
To serve an ambassador who was despotic toward his subordinates and servile toward those of a higher social rank.
- Isabel Allende
He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits.
- Isabel Allende
It's when you begin to think about going to your dream that your dream is always outside of your comfort zone. It's always beyond what you've ever done.
- Bruce Wilkinson
In esse I am nothing; in posse I am everything.
- John Adams
The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing.
- Anonymous
What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.
- Henry David Thoreau