Quotes About Ambition

At twenty-one he had arrived in America a penniless bodybuilder, born in an obscure Austrian village, armed only with the immigrant's time-honored weapons of hope, ambition, and an almost supernatural belief in the great American dream. Now, through the traditional virtues of hard work, talent, charm, intelligence, positive mental attitude, and persistence, Arnold Schwarzenegger had become a household name.

My father plowed under our fields to make the landing space for his helicopter. Jenna's father thinks my father is lazy since he only flies three times a week and is back by dinnertime. My father thinks Jenna's father should mind his own business.

Fake it till you make it?" "Um

Abashed, should assumed its place in the list of what could be accomplished, what couldn't.

But I think I'm too old to dream now. In a month and a half, I'll be twenty-nine.

We've accepted the fact that we need to make our dreams smaller if that's what it takes to keep dreaming.

Karl Marx himself spoke to her and said, "Sheilah, arise, you have nothing to lose but your mediocrity.

And I suppose in a way you have to hand it to the ex-East End orphan named Lily Shiel. Just what to hand her, I'd be hard put to say.

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

She wrote for years, one book after another, just trying to get somewhere. At one point, despite all the roadblocks her publisher put in her way, she hit the New York Times list and got a multimillion dollar contract with another publisher.

I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else then so be it.

Les gens qui aiment retirer la nourriture des lèvres des autres ne veulent jamais nourrir les gens par la suite. Il en est de même pour ceux qui veulent que les autres abandonnent leurs rêves pour leur plaire ou répondre à leurs besoins, ils n'ont jamais de meilleur rêve à offrir.

My biggest fear is seeing myself in a grave without becoming the President of Haiti one day to save my country.

People who like to remove food from other people's lips never want to feed the people afterwards. It's the same for those who want other people to give up on their dreams to please them or fit their needs, they never have a better dream to offer.

Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.

But the question that everyone wanted answered was whether I would have the nerve and the strength to start the whole process from scratch. I said yes; otherwise I would be someone who had no dream left, and without dreams I would not want to live.

For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for a fleeting moment I let myself take a long, hard look at myself, something I would not otherwise do--out of instinct, on principle, out of self-preservation--look at myself with objective curiosity to see whether my vision has not destroyed me already. I found it comforting to note that I was still breathing.

And don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there [space]. Man belongs wherever he wants to go — and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough.

Don't stop on the road to success so you don't get run over by failure.

Dreams are turning the desert into paradise.

Even if opportunities don't come to you because of the selfishness of others, don't give up on your ability.

Few have been able to steal what many will not be able to do by working.

Few have been able to steal what many will not be able to do while working.