Great Ambition Quotes

Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.

We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

I grew up on the south side of Chicago in the 1960s, and I think there was a synchronicity of events that inspired me to be an astronaut, and, of course, the backdrop is nothing less than Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. That was a time in our nation where we aspired to great things, and we achieved them.

I don't think I focused on the financial part of it, but definitely, my ambition is to be great, and that always meant that the sky was the limit for what I was hoping to do.

Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.