Quotes About Ambition

Why do they say, "Give it the old college try?" Based on our experience, "the old college try" would consist of sleeping in for four years and not giving a damn.

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football.

Playing to win requires a commitment to yourself that even if you fail, you will never give up and never let your goals and dreams die. Those

Failure provides you with a great opportunity to decide how much you really want something. Will you give up? Or will you dig deeper, commit more, work harder, learn, and get better? If you know that this is what you truly want, you will be willing to pay the price that success requires. You will be willing to fail again and again in order to succeed.

Normal people don't just wake up in the morning and say I think it'd be a good idea to run for president of the United States.

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

That's what was great about him. He tried. Not many do.

No, it is remrable that everest did not yield to the first few attempts; it would have been suprising and not a little sad if it had, for that is not the way of great mountains.

He dreamed big but understood that dreams become reality only when their champions are strong enough and wily enough to bend history to their purposes.

I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor.

You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.

Every Democrat says he wants to be JFK while insisting that he will do more or less what LBJ did. No Democrat would dream of saying he wanted to emulate Lyndon Johnson, because the myth is what matters most.

I'm sure a bunch of 15-year-old kids would way rather I do 'Superbad 2' than 'Moneyball.' But I would love to do movies like 'Superbad' and movies like 'Moneyball.'

I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.

I'm going to do something bigger and better, bigger and better and bolder, but first, I'm going to do something smaller and worse.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

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Jim Cannon, Baker's top aide, knew that his boss was "more responsible than he is ambitious." When Cannon advised Baker that voting yes would prevent him from becoming the Republican nominee for president in 1980, the senator snapped, "So be it.

Everything you want in life has teeth.

Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.

It was almost impossible to discourage him," Joe Martin said. "He was easily the hardest worker of any kid I ever taught.