Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs...

As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

Predictions of failure have never stopped those whose ambitions are driven by their unwavering vision.

Let your ambitions fly. Let nothing hold you back.

I believe we are powerful, but we don’t use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want.

At the end of the day let their be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today.

Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don’t just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won’t happen. Change your attitude and gain some...

A dream is not what you see when you sleep. It is what keeps you from falling asleep.

Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers (lovers of wisdom), and they value the contemplation and discovery of nature beyond...

You can’t achieve what you can’t imagine being done

We can’t all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.

The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddling our way toward frugality, simplicity, liberty, community, until some kind of sane and rational balance is achieved between...

A lot of people in the automotive industry thought he’d sort of exited through the back door when he took the job at Linde, but he showed that it was a very well-organized company and...

A brick could make everything better for me. Now, if I could only find a way to get my hands on one. But it’s a silly dream, because I don’t have the ambition to get...

I never had a childhood. Not like the rest of them anyway. I had a starting point from which I have never stopped running.

He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he...

You see what I am driving at. The mentally handicapped do not have a consciousness of power. Because of this perhaps their capacity for love is more immediate, lively and developed than that of other...

Is he running purely because of personal ambition, or is he the head of a movement? … We remember the heads of movements.

I am fulfilling my destiny.

I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.

A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.

Ambition’ is ‘greed’ rebranded.

There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.

After much effort to live up to a glorious standard there came fatigue, wan hope, and boredom. I experienced extreme boredom. I saw others experiencing it too, many denying, by the way, that any such...

Those who seize the day become seriously rich.

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

Housewife: a position requiring great ambition to fill. Must have the determination to scrub mold, the good taste to distribute a checking account, and the good will to repeat this at a maid service or...

[I raise a brow at the speed and seeming exactitude of his ambition.] Well, maybe four years, … As long as I don’t allow myself to get distracted I think that’s possible. If I keep...

Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they’ve always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

He may prove to be totally innocent, but this is a negative — a big distraction — for his presidential ambitions and management of the Senate.

I am told by people all the time that they simply do not have time to read and listen to all the material they have purchased or subscribed to. But time is democratic and just....

The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become ‘somebody,’ and frankly, I don’t have the least ambition to become anybody.

Distraught with the comprehension of his demise, a shovel stood dormant, in the ditch of her own digging. Now sheltered from the glare of greed and ambition, were the distasteful thoughts sprinkled in fool’s gold.

The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be.

We have enough grace for everything.

Explore new learning adventures.

I’m a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it’s never at the expense of anything more serious than the inadequate efforts of others.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

I’m nothing but my ambition to become more than the marionette others created me to be.

Prayer, faith, and vision, plus real effort too.Blend them together for one potent brew;The magical spell to your dreams coming true.

I used to be a poet.My words were traded in marketplaces like pieces of gold.Merchants bought my verses for as much as they paid for saffron and Indian jade.Now I am old…drunk on wine and...

I’d be glad to go out on a limb with thoseWho want nothing beyond what the wind bestows,Were I not bound to roots, dug in deep to bearNever being done grasping for light and air

We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an interest in glory or perfection as a sign of mental unhealthiness, and have...

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

People won’t respect you until you achieve the respectable goals.

I played very well today – I made every putt. My ambition is to finish the year in the top 10. To do that, I will have to win another tournament this year, maybe here.

Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose

Keep your standards even when everyone around you is losing theirs.

Why do I do anything?’ she says. ‘I’m educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I’m so smart I can negate any dream.