Quotes about Ambition

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.

There are always a few sad souls who want to be king.

I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.

I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy.

Throughout my career, I have been confronted with people who have doubted my ability to achieve the dreams and ambitions distilled into my soul by my father.

The free school is the promoter of that intelligence which is to preserve us as a free nation. If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side—and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.

I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

Succeed; that is the advice that falls, drop by drop, from the overhanging fruit of corruption.