Quotes About Ambition

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.

He was frustrated essentially because he wanted to be Niels Bohr or Albert Einstein, and he knew he wasn't." Weil

Oppenheimer was acutely attuned to the consequences of his actions, but, like Arjuna, he was also driven to do his duty. So duty (and ambition) overrode his doubts—though doubt remained, in the form of an ever-present awareness of human fallibility.

Modern Prometheans have raided Mount Olympus again and have brought back for man the very thunderbolts of Zeus.

Upon his return to New York, Robert opened his mail to learn that Ernest Rutherford had rejected him. "Rutherford wouldn't have me," Oppenheimer recalled. "He didn't think much of Bridgman and my credentials were peculiar.

You gotta follow your passion in life

When a man wants something he must pursue it with all he has. - Salvadore, The Tutor by Kailin Gow

In order to be successful as a woman, teach your daughter to never apologize for her success. Men never have to apologize for it, why should the women who earned it? - Raising A Strong Daughter: What Fathers Should Know by Finlay Gow JD and Kailin Gow MA

You don't have to wait to be "Accepted" by a publisher or agent to become a Millionaire Author and live a glamorous life traveling, living near celebrities in Hollywood and California, and being able to be hired to speak all over the world. I did it without being traditionally published, and it is the greatest feeling in the world to have that freedom. - Kailin Gow, Millionaire Self-Made Author

I'm going to go after what I want.", Summer Jones in Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

Confidence - people can mistake confidence for cockiness. In my experience, the mistake is not so much about how high I think of myself or how high anyone thinks about themselves, but rather how little people think of themselves. Aspire to be as high as you can be. Potential is limitless if you have a high self-confidence and self-esteem.

Everyone has a purpose in life. Finding that purpose is the passion that drives us." Kailin Gow

This is the bottom line: You have your whole life ahead of you. Do you want to be controlled by what those girls think or do you want to become the person you were destined to be, much greater than what your so-called friends want you to be?" - Saving You Saving Me by Kailin Gow

Staying within the edge will not get you to cutting-edge. Risk a little to achieve. - Kailin Gow. Strong

I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

A man needed fire in his veins to burn through the world, not ice to freeze everything in place.

Your father doesn't see any of this. Little princeling wants a crown on his head and his hands lily-white. He can't have both. Why do you have to be

Dream and Change the World

Now I can let these dream killers kill my self esteem-or use my arrogance as steam to power my dreams!!!

And wouldn't change by the change, or the game, or the fame, when he came, in the game, he made his own name

In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

I'm the Number One living and breathing rock star.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'