Quotes About Ambition

To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will--we all do. If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. "We can't win," we moan. "They won't let us win.

If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.

The daily mantra of these single-minded individuals – that 'the sea is there to be swum in, and must be conquered' – is one that is frequently adopted by any Brits on holiday in the UK. Well, for the first day of the holiday, anyway. C

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

you can do anything you set your mind to

the more thoroughly I liberate myself from prevailing cultural assumptions—around education, wealth, ambition, and success, to name but a few—the more choice I actually have. The more freedom I have.

a Hungarian girl with a completely unjustified belief in her own genius.

In a brilliant lecture written in 1944, C. S. Lewis described the fatal British obsession with the 'inner ring', the belief that somewhere, just beyond reach, is an exclusive group holding real power and influence, which a certain sort of Englishman constantly aspires to find and join.

Literature is fighting for its very life because compromise is mistook for ambition, and joining up is preferred to standing out …

Zuckerberg had gotten lucky—in another world, the twins never would have had to approach him for coding help. In any event, Tyler and Cameron didn't believe they were on the earth to exist; they were here to create, to build.

My limits know me well enough to stay out of my way.

a dream can be the highest point of a life

now his not-so-secret ambition was to be chairman of the Fed after my departure.

Hank would be free to pursue his passions

But I was determined to go further if necessary.

graduating two years ahead of me.

Greg—whom I had known since graduate school—called and asked if I had any interest in succeeding him.

I set my sights on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose PhD program in economics was widely viewed as the best in the world.

young go into the profession with dread, the old can scarcely wait for retirement, and those of the middle years yearn for sabbaticals.

I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals....

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this; decide what you want.

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.