Quotes About Ambition

All she wanted was for me to have a dream, a direction, to stop drifting. She wasn't the only one. I wanted me to stop drifting—still do.

Some days it just feels like I'm here for the shoes and the eternal hope that I shall be issued minions.

What happens when you're comfortable is that you end up getting deeper and deeper into a "good" life that prevents you from living a great life and accomplishing what you really dream about.

Create 3 or 4 stories that include the 10 steps above. If you already have a few stories, improve on them and make sure they have the 10 steps in them.

There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.   —Nelson Mandela

The Great Man theory lives on as strongly as ever in one field of human endeavour: big business.

Repeated rejection causes us to lower our sights; an unbroken string of successful seductions encourages us to aim a little higher. But it is worth it to get off the Red Queen's treadmill before you drop.

Besides, a million years of natural selection shaped human nature to be ambitious to rear successful children, not to settle for contentment: people are programmed to desire, not to appreciate.

Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea.

A modest dress is a very good thing, if it be the genuine indication of a humble heart, and is to instruct; but it is a bad thing if it be the hypocritical disguise of a proud ambitious heart, and is to deceive. Let men be really as good as they seem to be, but not seem to be better than really they are.

Let your life be guided by greatness

Strong self-esteem depends on two things. The first is what most of this book has been about: learning to think in healthy ways about yourself. The second key to self-esteem is the ability to make things happen, to see what you want and go for it: literally to create your own life.

I was modeling sunglasses for a while, but that got kinda shady. No

Because this is what I wanted to look like. I wanted to look different. So I made myself look different—better than just fine. If you want to be something, you make a decision, and then you make it happen. It's called personal responsibility.

When they dreamed of turning iron and metal into gold, they called it alchemy. The much more far-fetched dream of turning bound sheafs of plain paper into fortunes, they call publishing

Avoid the Holy Grail, the heroic journeys, the pursuit of a legend--that is not the life of the bookaneer, who must keep his eyes on the ground while other book people live by dreaming.

The mind of our country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself.

There is no such thing as an aspiring writer. You are a writer. Period.

I have both held and beheld unlimited power and of it I know but one thing. It drives men mad.' - Alexander the Great

We didn't come this far just to come this far

I think what everyone should be doing, before it's too late, is committing themselves to what they really want to do with their lives.

My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you'll do to a great extent means choosing who you'll be.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

You have to try. Trying is the first step to whatever comes next.