ambition

It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed.

Give your ambition a name.

If you can't get everyone on your side, make sure they're right behind you.

...You are a little boy. You want the moon to drink from as a golden cup; and so, it is very likely that you will become a great man -- if only you remain a little child. All the world'sgreat have been little boys who wanted the moon; running and climbing, they sometimes catch a firefly. But if one grow to a man's mind, that mind must see that it cannot have the moon and would not want it if it could -- and so, it catches no fireflies.' [Merlin]

Once you have some yes's in your life, the no's are not that bad.

You are always a bishop with a ambition and second as a fisher.

The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers - is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.

Ambition had never troubled me, so I decided to begin by watching life at my leisure for a few years, waiting until I finally felt tempted to find some circle of influence for myself.

I don't have the type of ambition that will make me do anything at any cost to get what I want. I don't want to be beholden to people. I don't want to open a shop with your money because I don't want to be indebted to you.""I'm your husband; it's our money.""Morally, legally, maybe yes, but in here," she put a hand to her head "and here," she lay the flat of her hand over her heart, "it's your money. You earned it or were given it way before you met me.

When the right stage gets missing, true talent that can grow to inspire, nurture and change lives least gets the right stage to manifest; real deft and dexterity remains latent and people only die with their dreams, abilities and capabilities.

Some of the best of us are quite unambitious.

When ambition exceeds ability, you are going to experience hardship. We have the choice to fear it or embrace it.

Ambition and stupidity are a dangerous combination.

Ambition is a stairway that never ends.

Great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance. What will your contribution be? How will history remember you?

Self-reliance and self-learning are your greatest assets.

Beware of that demon called 'Changing The World'.

You don__ come to live here [New York City] unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn__ a strong aspect of your personality. 'A reality shaped around your own desires' _ there is something sociopathic in that ambition.