Quotes About Ambition

I want to be a Tiger.

I was someone who was trying to make it into the world of glamour. On the other hand, Tiger has also been an athlete and a sports person. He is making his own choices instead of being under my shadow.

But I'm the child of a tiger mom.

I don't play this game to be an average tight end.

It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.

I'm not going to go out there and say that I'm better than X, I'm better than Y. I think I'm the best tight end in the game.

I play this game to be the best tight end I can possibly be and win as many football games as I possibly can.

My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to tell people she wanted to be Beethoven's mother. That was her thing. She wanted to be the mother of this person.

I started out real young as a tight end, but I was never getting the football. I knew when I played basketball, I loved to have control of the ball. When I played baseball, I was a pitcher. I always wanted to be the guy throwing the passes and making a difference, I guess.

When you're a position coach, your next goal is to be a coordinator. While trying to be the best tight ends coach you can be, I always wanted to be an offensive coordinator at some point. When the opportunity presents itself, you want to make sure you capitalize on that.

I think I had a good rookie year, but at the end of the day, I want to be one of the best tight ends ever to play, and I'm going to set my standard for that and work toward that goal.

Obviously I want to be the best as a tight end.

It was never easy, but I always tried my best and kept complaints out of my heart by holding tightly onto the hope that one day, I would read and write.

Howard Schulz approached 242 people to raise money for Starbucks and was rejected by 217 of them.

Walt Disney was turned down for a loan for Disney theme parks 300 times.

If you're not getting nos you're not trying.

The opposite of success isn't failure, it's doing nothing.

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

Articulating and expanding your motivation when you wake up in the morning has the power to change your whole day.

The point of handling our motivation is not necessarily to channel it into a drive to be successful; that would be ambition. Rather, the point is to

What is my motivation?

Some are born to greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them for blowing off the hands and feet of Nicaraguan coffee harvesters. The rest of us are forced to work. It's amusing but nothing logical or scientific.