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Quotes About Ambition

The people who don't have a great life are the ones who settle for a good one.
~ James C. Collins
I was convinced that I was going to be onstage for the rest of my life.
~ James Callis
I write larger than life. It's what I do.
~ James Patterson
My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.
~ Jason Mraz
I would say that since I was nine years old I've always wanted to write and direct horror movies and action movies. There's never been a time in my life where that wasn't all I wanted to do.
~ Jay Baruchel
Reign, and keep life in this our deep desireOur only greatness is that we aspire.
~ Jean Ingelow
I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and so I started to write in earnest.
~ Jean Plaidy
I would have loved to have been two people, but I was determined not to devote my entire life to my career.
~ Jeff Beck
My goal in life is to become an adjective.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
I never want to have that on my shoulders - I never want to be number one on the call sheet. That's a life that I don't want. I mean, I'm not ducking the responsibility.
~ Jeffrey Tambor
Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I never considered failure.
~ Jennifer Lawrence
All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.
~ Jerry Orbach
There is nothing more rewarding than completing a goal you have set for yourself.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try.
~ Jess C Scott
This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.
~ Jess Walter
So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.
~ Jesse Jackson
I don't want to think of life after competing. But if I were to do anything else I'd go down the psychology route. That's what interests me.
~ Jessica Ennis
Dreams are the directions to the rest of your life!
~ Jim Atkinson
Trophies separate the winners from losers, and life is about winning and losing. Go into business and you see. You're competing every day.
~ Jim Courier
Goal-setting is powerful because it provides focus. It shapes our dreams. It gives us the ability to hone in on the exact actions we need to perform to achieve everything we desire in life.
~ Jim Rohn
One of the amazing things we have been given as humans is the unquenchable desire to have dreams of a better life, and the ability to establish goals to live out those dreams.
~ Jim Rohn
Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.
~ Jo Nesbo
My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular.
~ Joan Didion