I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?" (Quote by - General George S. Patton)

For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave. (Quote by - George Herbert)

The only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions. (Quote by - Mike Atherton)

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to the second or even the third rank. (Quote by - Cicero)

If I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity. (Quote by - Madonna)

I've long harboured radio presenting ambitions. (Quote by - Abi Titmuss)

At the age of six I wantd to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. (Quote by - Salvador Dali)

I have been absolutely hag- ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition. (Quote by - Tallulah Bankhead)

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan. (Quote by - Oliver Herford)

I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk- seeking profile that you need. (Quote by - Laurel Cutler)

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Well- being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go. (Quote by - James Cook)

The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscapes (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

I strike the stars with by sublime head. (Quote by - Quintus Horatius Flaccus)

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue. (Quote by - Sir Philip Sidney)

Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down. (Quote by - John Dryden)

The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and the army tomorrow. (Quote by - Yakubu Gowon)

Ambition is not what man does.. but what man would do. (Quote by - Robert Browning)

If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider. (Quote by - Dr. Joyce Brothers)

Ambition never comes to an end. (Quote by - Kenneth Kaunda)

Perhaps middle- age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego (Quote by - Anne Morrow Lindbergh)

Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of ou (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)