Quotes on My Ambition

The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That’s because we typically begin at the wrong starting point—ourselves. We ask self-centered questions like What do I want to be? What should I do with my life? What are my goals, my ambitions, my dreams for my future? But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life’s purpose.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.

My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me.

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver.

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.

My ambition is always to get better and better.

Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side

This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.