Quotes About Ambition

You Will Be What You Decide to Be, Nothing Less, Nothing More

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.

Adventure is a loose word that means different things to different people. It is a state of mind, a spirit of trying something new and leaving your comfort zone. Adventure is about enthusiasm, ambition, open-mindedness and curiosity. If this is true, then 'adventure' is not only crossing deserts and climbing mountains; adventure can be found everywhere, every day, and it is up to us to seek it out.

Start small, do what you do with enthusiasm and do it very well. Stick to that and growth will come.

We crawl out of rocks, set our calendars, make a civilisation, scrabble around for quoins, build our proud little empires, and then one day someone puts too many quoins in the same place and it all comes crashing down.

Lack of ambition is for baseline humans.]

We're still fumbling in the dark, trying to find out how to live on a galactic scale.

There's a lot of obsession about people's personal ambitions.

My personal goals are to fight and beat the best opponent possible.

I set my own personal goals; I'm not playing to satisfy fans.

Every team and club has its own personal goals and objectives, and I'm only concerned about mine.

My character, Charlotte, is very confident, and I try to be more like my character in real life. Not that I'm not confident, but I've really found my personal growth through work.

I've always put my career first, and it has been difficult on my personal life.

I have no personal life.

That's how me and my friends are. We love our personal relationships, but we have things we want to accomplish.

Obviously, personal responsibility is important. But there's no evidence that people who are poor are less ambitious than anyone else. In fact, many work long hours at backbreaking jobs.

When you set a goal, it's a personal thing, and that goal should be very big, hairy and audacious.

There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.

To be a lawyer was too boring for me, for my personality.

I don't think I ever wanted to be like Kanye in personality. I think I definitely want to, have always wanted to, have his boldness or assurance in myself.

People have said, 'Why don't you make your own company like Chan-wook Park has his own company,' but my head is full of writing and directing and I don't feel like I want to run a company. That's not really within my personality as well.

If I see something that's extremely challenging, I'm like, 'That seems really hard. Let's try it.' It's just my personality.

Extreme success results from an extreme personality and comes at the cost of many other things.