Quotes About Ambition

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.

I want all Egyptian people to follow my way to improve themselves. We are a huge country. We have many children. I want everyone to dream and feel they can do something.

You're always just trying to create opportunities and be ready when those opportunities present themselves. I can't look at anybody and think 'I want to be Damian Lewis' - I'd be setting myself up for failure.

Leadership flows from inner character and integrity of ambition, which inspires others to lend themselves to your organization's mission.

I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then... we became a national brand in Japan. So, the next step is to become a global brand.

I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.

A lot of people have their big dreams and get knocked down and don't have things go their way. And you never give up hope, and you really just hold on to it. Hard work and perserverance. You just keep getting up and getting up, and then you get that breakthrough.

When you want to succeed as bad as you want breathe, then you will be successful.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

John Kerry wants to be the hero in his own drama. He likes King Arthur and the Round Table. He likes the young swashbuckling Churchill, and he loved the early antics of Theodore Roosevelt.

Why does it have to be politics? Is there a dynamism to that world and a theoretical capacity to do things that draws many talented people? Absolutely. Are there other ways to be involved and lead an interesting life? Of course.

Although I was really interested in physics, I think I wanted to do it because I thought it was really hard. I did theoretical physics.

I want to study theoretical physics because it is one of the hardest things there is.

My theory is that many of the things that move us are things we long for but find hard to do.

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

I always had the theory that if you have a dream, chase it. And I'm chasing it.

The idea of stopping is not unmeaningful to me. I think there might be a time when, in theory at least, you'd say, 'Well I've mostly done what I want to do.' But how could you ever prevent a few years down the line some germ of an idea getting at you and you've got to do it again?

My goal is to become a therapist by the time I'm 50.

I graduated with a degree in musical theater and no skill in anything else to make money; I wish I had gotten a massage therapy kit or something where I could have made my own money.