Quotes about Ambition

To dare; that is the price of progress.

We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption.

Did not i say that things would come right of themselves? said the Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, To him who contents himself with the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop. Monseigneur, murmured the cure, throwing back his head with a smile. God or the Devil.

Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' We must suppose that is what he said to himself.

Venerate the man, whoever he may be, who has this sign—the starry eye.

It means what you are, wanting what you want and going after it without a sens od shame. People are slaves to rules.

A young woman forced to keep drunks supplied with beer and siblings with clean underwear -instead of being allowed to pursue something higher- stores up great reserves of vitality, a vitality never dreamed of by university students yawning over their books.

Franz could not accept that the fact that the glory of the Grand March was equal to the comic vanity of its marchers.

As much as I loved the art and discipline of the dance, it didn't love me!

Act as if you were already the person you want most to be.

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. The bigger your goals and the clearer they are, the more excited you become about achieving them. The more you think about your goals, the greater becomes your inner drive and desire to accomplish them.

Success equals goals; all else is commentary.