ambition Quotes

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

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

I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.