ambition Quotes

There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, youll be a general; if you become a monk, youll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.