Quotes About Ambition

What had he ever wanted that he could not buy? And if that wasn't riches he didn't know what was.

But no, Potticary, poor fool, brushed his boots for love of it. He probably had a slave mentality; but had never read enough for it to worry him.

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

One day I will become an astronaut and play mini golf on the sun. Goodbye papa, goodbye mama. I must continue to be the first little Italian boy in space

At the end of the day, it all comes down to how bad you freakin' want it. That's it."

By this time next year, you'll be in places you never even dreamed of. Keep on pushing.

You don't need to state the obvious by saying things like "success is the only option". It's a given. No other options even exist.

You must distance yourself from the past if you want to realize your specific ideal."

a hotshot rising star on the force who figured he had all the answers—mostly because he had still not come across the really big questions.

My instinct is always to seek out challenges as opposed to avoiding them.

A heartfelt, empathetically present, incrementally inspiring mom or dad or coach can liberate an ambitious child to take the world by the horns. As

When aiming for the top, your path requires an engaged, searching mind. You have to make obstacles spur you to creative new angles in the learning process. Let setbacks deepen your resolve. You should always come off an injury or a loss better than when you went down.

there are clear distinctions between what it takes to be decent, what it takes to be good, what it takes to be great, and what it takes to be among the best. If your goal is to be mediocre, then you have a considerable margin for error. You can get depressed when fired and mope around waiting for someone to call with a new job offer. If you hurt your toe, you can take six weeks watching television and eating potato chips.

It's one thing to decide what you want. It's quite another to know how to get it. William doesn't know how, but he is trying.

The large factory became an incandescent symbol of human ambition and achievement, but also of suffering. Time and again, it served as a measuring rod for attitudes toward work, consumption, and power, a physical embodiment of dreams and nightmares about the future.

But the past doesn't have to be the future. That's the point of something you aspire to.

John has always been searching for something," says Jennifer Irwin, McAfee's girlfriend at the time. She remembers him telling her once that he was trying to reach "the expansive horizon.

All over America, in fact, people were up and out of their beds today in a continuing effort to polish turds. Sure, for the sake of survival, but more immediately for the sake of some sadistic manager or shit-brained client whose small imagination and numbingly dumb ideas were bleaching the world of all relevancy and hope.

Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.

in Born Losers: A History of Failure in America

Were all gentlemen so competitive that they wanted to win, regardless of the prize?

Dreams come a size too big so that we may grow into them.

Happiness is making your dreams come true.

Don't let fear hold you back from pursuing your dreams. Believe in yourself and go for it.