Quotes About Ambition

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

America is big enough to accommodate all their dreams.

I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream...he realizes that he's gone just about as far as talent or fortune will take him. The dream will not happen, and he now faces the choice of accepting this fact like a grownup and moving on to more sensible pursuits, or refusing the truth and ending up bitter, quarrelsome, and slightly pathetic.

At the end of the day, the circumstances of your life-- what you look like,where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home--none of that is an excuse... where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No ones written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write you own destiny.You make your own future.

the big house and the nice suits and the other things that our money culture says you should buy ... betrays a poverty of ambition.

Sometimes you can't worry about hurt. Sometimes you worry only about getting where you have to go." We

Sometimes you can't worry about hurt. Sometimes you worry only about getting where you have to go.

To the furniture worker's child in North Carolina who wants to become a doctor or a scientist, an engineer or an entrepreneur, a diplomat or even a president -- that's the future we hope for. That's the vision we share. That's where we need to go -- forward

I find comfort in the fact that the longer I'm in politics the less nourishing popularity becomes, that a striving for power and rank and fame seems to betray a poverty of ambition, and that I am answerable mainly to the steady gaze of my own conscience.

Wanting to be in politics but not of it.

if Abbas had been a younger man, more intent on making his mark than protecting himself from criticism.

I recognized that in running for Congress I'd been driven not by some selfless dream of changing the world, but rather by the need to justify the choices I had already made, or to satisfy my ego, or to quell my envy of those who had achieved what I had not.

How many of us are tested in that way, asked to risk careers we've long dreamed of in the service of some greater good?

that it wasn't just an exercise in vanity or ambition but rather a part of an unbroken chain of progress.

It was the sort of change that's important not because it alters your concrete circumstances in some way (wealth, security, fame) but because it hints at what might be possible and therefore spurs you on, beyond the immediate exhilaration, beyond any subsequent disappointments, to retrieve that thing that you once, ever so briefly, held in your hand.

I was actually doing in my life. I was like a young Walter Mitty; a Don Quixote with no Sancho Panza.

important it is to stay focused on your goals rather than getting hung up on the daily ups and downs.

Show me someone who's okay with losing," he said, "and I'll show you a loser.

They're not trying to get filthy rich. They don't expect someone else to do what they can do for themselves.

Look, if you had one shot or one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted in one moment, would you capture it? Or just let it slip …");

there would always be a chasm between what I knew should be done to achieve a better world and what in a day, week, or year I found myself actually able to accomplish.

How useful is it to describe the world as it should be when efforts to achieve that world are bound to fall short?