Quotes About Ambition

the future is no place to place your better days

take what you can from your dreams Make them real as anything It takes the work out of the courage

One could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within.

You have to reach the point that what people think is not your primary motivator. Reaching the goal is the motivator.

If you don't own the goal and it doesn't come from your dream, then you won't have the toughness to persevere when the going gets tough. And I will promise you that the going will get tough. There is never an exception—everyone who wins must push through obstacles, lots of them. You simply will not get up at dawn for your three-mile run because your wife wants you thinner. Big goals require big backbone—wimps need not apply.

If you will do the things others won't do then some day you will have the life others won't have.

Goals convert vision into energy. When you lay out exactly what you want to do in detail, you immediately start feeling the room move and the earth shake. You are pulled into your new life like some scene from a movie. Goals help make great men. J. C. Penney once said, "Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal and I will give you a stock clerk.

should always be dreaming. Dreaming is a sign you have hope.

Dreaming also has a negative connotation as well. Some people dream and stop there. They never do anything about making their dreams come true.

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politics was a necessarily dirty game of treachery and deceit.

You can do what you want to do.

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

In fact, the reality of life is such that you never do get to the top. The climb is the goal. The top of the mountain is only the direction, not the destination

These were the idiots shat out by West Point, turds in starched uniforms and glistening high-and-tight haircuts, shiny-foreheaded future corporate executives who used words like envisionment instead of vision.

Life for him was a constant balancing act between disrespect and career preservation.

Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.

If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.

Let go of this: "You will one day find your true passion and life can really begin." Grab onto this: "You will CREATE a life that you are passionate about living with every decision you make every day.

He had seen the ambitious and the proud seek to raise themselves above their kin, and in so doing corrupt themselves, make themselves into things of contempt. The true nobility did not need to prove itself. It simply was, a fact as indisputable as the orbit of planets and the majesty of stars.

It's a mass agitation of ambitious cocks!

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

There are people that who want to be someone and there are people that want to do something.

in January 2003, Barack Obama was just a small speedboat trying to launch before some battleship came along and capsized his ambitions.