Quotes About Ambition

I'm not very funny in real life. I used to want to be a comedian when I was 13, 14, 15, till I saw "Death Of A Salesman" with Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock.

Take the pains required to become what you want to become, or you might end up becoming something you'd rather not be. That is also a daily discipline and worth considering.

People who get what they want tend to be the ones who make the effort to know what they want.

I am very ambitious. I want to enjoy this and then really go for it.

Whoever we are here, we might be princesses somewhere else. Or writers. Or scientists. Or presidents. Or whatever the hell we want to be that everyone else says we can't.

I am my city. Nobody from my city wants to hear about my city.

Most people are not going after what they want. Even some of the most serious goal seekers and goal setters, they're going after what they think they can get. Set your sights higher.

Next year we have to be even better. If we want to be a big club this has to be one of many.

Stephen Arnott

Though most students in those days read with an accomplished attorney in his office, Lincoln taught himself entirely on his own.

Per ardua ad astra. Through adversity to the stars.

We're going to bollocks up our second chance at Eden, even before the paint has dried.

When asked why a man sixty-nine years old, who had spent most of his life manufacturing and selling small household appliances, should suddenly at the end of his career fling himself into the construction of a major building, Mr. Clark replied, "To make money.

Described by a contemporary as "Napoleonic in stature," he was diminutive, and to overcome this he took to placing his office

his abilities, of course. He was always intending

No man can know what power he can rightly call his own unless he presses a little," he wrote. It was time to press.

He declared that it was his love for poetry—and his ambition to write great poetry—that had compelled his self-training. "To love poetry is to study it," he said to Ward. (Frost became one of America's greatest autodidacts.)

In his late teens, and probably as a result of Neefe's coaching, Beethoven began to read widely and voraciously. This is when he began to frame his life as a quest to

XXIV I saw a man pursuing the horizon; Round and round they sped. I was disturbed at this; I accosted the man. "It is futile," I said, "You can never-" "You lie" he cried And ran on.

Are you following Christ's ambitions for your life or expecting Him to help you reach yours?

Talent isn't enough. Determination, ambition, energy and gall are also needed, as well as the need to have one's ego serve the writing and not the reverse.

All I wanted was a job like a book so good I'd be finishing it for the rest of my life.

In every book I ever wrote the point was to do as much as you could after coming to terms with your limitations.

What's most important is having the conviction and vision to move toward what you want to create day after day, year after year, decade after decade.