ambition Quotes

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

I have a reputation for taking on governors a lot more powerful than me.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.